This software utility lets you turn your laptop into a WiFi router.

The Gateway notebook WiFi Router is a software-based WiFi routing utility that turns your notebook into a wireless router. Setting up this kind of a router will let you share your Internet connection with other WiFi devices. This Notebook WiFi Router utilizes the notebook`s WiFi card to help other WiFi enabled devices in the neighborhood to share your Internet connection. These devices can see and join wireless network created. The set up then works like any other Wi-Fi access point. This access point then can support notebooks, smart phones, music players, and gaming systems. The connection does not have to be a wireless connection; it could easily be a wired broadband connection to the PC, a 3G USB modem or even a cable modem. Password protection backed by encryption helps keep you and these other devices safe and secure. This tool then gives you a means of a local WiFi networks in your immediate vicinity at short notice such a quick meeting with your colleagues in your hotel room, for example.

The interface is quite intuitive and simple to use. No particular skill is required to use this tool; most beginners should be able to start right away. There is no need for messy wiring or other network related stuff to set up the network. This is a good product, has useful features and could be handy in setting up a WiFi network quickly.