Connectify was a great freeware but has now became a paid service, luckily there are many alternatives available for creating virtual wi-fi hotspot on your computer. OSToto Hotspot is yet another freeware tool with a weird name to get the job done, the utility is FREE and has no advertising to bug you. All it takes is a single-click to create a virtual Wi-Fi hotspot on your laptop/notebook/desktop computer with a working wireless adapter turning it into a Wi-Fi wireless access point. The utility supports all flavors of Windows OS including Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7, XP, Vista, Windows Server and comes with WPA2 PSK password security to safe guard your wifi hotspot from authorized usage.

While Bzeek offers an excellent free utility to share your internet connection over WiFi, another free and open source software based router for computers using Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 R2 is "Virtual Router".

As the name suggests, the software enables users to wirelessly share any internet connection on there PC/laptop (Wifi, LAN, Cable Modem, Dial-up, Cellular, etc.) with any Wifi device (Laptop, Smart Phone, iPod Touch, iPhone, Android Phone, Zune, Netbook, wireless printer, etc.) without requiring an dedicated WiFi router hardware, this "advertisement free" (unlike Connectify) utility creates an "Virtual Router" by utlizing Windows 7 built-in adhoc WiFi sharing capabilities - the acess-point created is completely secured using WPA2.

While configuring your Mac to act as an WiFI hotspot (so other devices can connect and share it's internet connection) requires some manual steps, Windows users have choice of free utilities like Connectify and all new Bzeek to do the task.

Bzeek not only enables your computer/laptop to act as an WiFi hotspot enabling WiFi connectivity to other devices like iPhone, Android, iPad and iPod Touch without requiring a WiFi router. But also enables it's users to be a part of a global WiFi network, where it allows secure sharing of internet with other Bzeek members letting them earn money from sharing unused bandwidth - Bzeek also provides an online Control-Panel so users have full-control of their BzeekSpot internet sharing.

If you have an internet connection on your Mac computer, you can share the same connection with other devices using ad-hoc Wi-Fi internet sharing. The step-by-step illustrated instructions shared below will allow your Mac computer to act as an WiFi router, Wi-Fi internet sharing capability comes built-in with Mac OS X and no additional software needs to be installed - the internet sharing feature just needs to get activated as shown ahead.