windows 8 - microsoft virtual wifi miniport adapter has been replaced by

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2014-07
  • Ayan Mullick

    Microsoft virtual wifi miniport adapter has been replaced by Microsoft Wi-Fi direct Virtual adapter in Windows 8; I think.

    I created hosted network using

    netsh wlan show drivers

    netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=TEST key=12345678

    netsh wlan start hostednetwork

    I am unable to connect to the hot-spot from my Lumia. It says that my computer did not respond. However, “netsh wlan show hostednetwork” shows “one authenticated user”

    PS C:> netsh wlan show hostednetwork

    Hosted network settings

    Mode                   : Allowed
SSID name              : "Test"
Max number of clients  : 10
Authentication         : WPA2-Personal
Cipher                 : CCMP

    Hosted network status

    Status                 : Started
BSSID                  : a2:88:b4:7f:31:9c
Radio type             : 802.11n
Channel                : 11
Number of clients      : 1
    a8:44:81:05:e3:64        Authenticated`

    My phone connects fine to other Wifi networks. I'm sure it's my laptop[8460p] I need to tweak.

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  • Zequez

    I have this theory, my wifi signal in Windows 7 is very poor, I tested in Ubuntu and it gets a really good signal.

    In Windows I use a Virtual wifi miniport adapter to make a wifi hotspot. I read somewhere that doing this the overall power of the wifi card is divided by the 2 connections.

    It is possible that I'm getting a crappy connection to my router because of this? If so, do you know how to disable it? Because although I can disable the Microsoft Virtual Wifi Miniport Adapter, I have no idea of how uninstall it. I read it comes with the drivers?

    Also the wifi card is an Atheros AR5007G and is a PCI in a desktop.


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  • techgnosis

    Using virtual wifi shouldn't affect the strength of your signal. It looks to me like your driver isn't very good on Windows but it is good on Linux.

    You really can't uninstall that adapter once you've turned on hosted network. It shouldn't matter though so don't sweat it.