Wi-Fi Alliance Approves Wi-Fi Direct

[gaurang]

The new specification allows Wi-Fi enabled devices to connect to each other directly and exchange data without a hotspot.

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[hmmblah]

This is all over the news sites and I'm not sure why. How is this different from using ad-hoc?

 

[techguy77]

If I read this correctly, one PC will be able to serve to multiple other PCs...like an access point. I'm pretty sure ad-hoc only allows communication with one other PC.

Nevermind...I just confirmed : )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiFi_Direct#Technical_Description

Wi-Fi Direct essentially embeds a software access point, or "soft AP", into any device that wishes to support Direct