Has anyone tried connecting a Windows 8 device to an N9 Wifi hotspot?
Recently, I have decided to get a Windows 8 tablet. I chose it over Android because the latter cannot connect to ad-hoc wifi (surprisingly, Asus Transformer pads can see and connect to the wifi, but not the internet). However, when I tried to connect to the wifi network created from my N9, the tablet could not connect. My 6-year-old MacBook and my sister's iPad 2 can connect without any problems, but the Windows tablet does not.
Additionally, after I try to unsuccessfully connect with the Windows tablet and then connect with the iPad, the latter establishes the connection with the phone, but cannot load any pages. After a while of trying to load a website, the icon on the N9 next to the iPad changes to the idle state (the one with Zzzz's).
Can anyone shed a light on this problem and help solve this issue? Thanks.
I'm not sure about Windows 8, but i know my Windows 7 PC cannot use ad-hoc wifi.
This is incorrect. I used to use Win7 on my laptop and if I used internet connection sharing it used to create an ad-hoc network and if I wanted to connect to an ad-hoc network it was the same too.
I've read on Win8 being slightly more difficult to create ad-hoc networks so I'm sure if the tablet is a Win8 Pro not RT there must be a way to connect to ad-hoc networks via some obscure method...
Not too sure if Win8 RT supports ad-hoc though I'm pretty sure just like Android devices having work-arounds to allow device to connect to ad-hoc there must be some work-around for RT too...
This is incorrect. I used to use Win7 on my laptop and if I used internet connection sharing it used to create an ad-hoc network and if I wanted to connect to an ad-hoc network it was the same too.
Strange. My computer had never been able to see my N9, so I looked it up and read that it was because Windows did not recognize ad-hoc connections. If that is not the case, then I have no idea why my PC has never been able to see my N9.
(Sorry for getting off topic)
Strange. My computer had never been able to see my N9, so I looked it up and read that it was because Windows did not recognize ad-hoc connections. If that is not the case, then I have no idea why my PC has never been able to see my N9.
(Sorry for getting off topic)
This is so rare because my tablet and pc are using normally my n9 hotspot
Ad hoc networks — You can’t create an ad hoc network in Windows 8 and Windows RT, but you can connect to an ad hoc network if one is in range (unless your PC is running Windows RT). There are third-party tools for creating ad hoc networks, if you need to do this.
