0x8004A029=NETCFG_E_MAX_FILTER_LIMIT
means you already have have too many network filters on the system.

thanks for the feedback, we will add a human-understandable explanation for this error.

After multiple tries, and restore points, the driver install fails every time with HRESULT=0x8004A029. Windows 7 Professional SP1 32 bit on a Dell Inspiron duo 1090

For those who were wondering even after all the explanations:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-baccelli-manet-multihop-communication-00#page-3

It is a tad jargoned...but good luck finding a description that is not.

Effectively, it is a chain connection, furthest device uses closer devices connected to same network to pass the information along, thereby seemingly extending the wifi signal ....at least, this is how I understand it.
Thanks GOTD and Vitalie Vrabie, I personally do not need this (I prefer hardwired due to far less security risk, and that I have a "wifi on command" infrastructure on My home network that more than fulfills what I, and the multiple net capable devices in My family, require), but it is an interesting offer.

Please tell me if I understand well. Does all the computers in my Wi-fi net should have this software instaled? or just the one which work as reapeater???

Thanks in advance for explanation.

Adam

I installed this program this morning. The Daihinia connection had excellent signal, full strength but, I was unable to connect to the internet!! It seems I lost my Wifi connection in the process!! I uninstalled it!!

I installed today's GOTD to my LAN network. Now besides my usual network connection, I also have Daihinia network which i can connect to. I get a msg. "waiting for users". Can anyone tell me what I can do from here because when i click on this network I can not get internet. I'm hoping I can start using my cell phone inside for better signal. thank you.

Please note, a wifi network card is needed, if not installation will fail and an error message "..wlanapi.dll was not found...." will popup up.

Not Connecting. It says waiting for users. Could anybody guide.

Can anyone tell me if today's software can do what we need? Our living room PC is on a good, wired ethernet connection two rooms away from our router. If we also connect and enable a wireless-n usb adapter to the living room PC can we use that to extend our wireless range even further?
Would it create a conflict with both the wired connection and the wireless adapter in use? Or, is it a great idea?

Am I missing something here? I mean what if a "center" computer acting as a 'repeater' for an "outer" computer gets shut off? The 'outer' systems lose their connections, right?

With this software you are creating what is essentially a daisy-chain of wirelessly connected systems, right?

Why go through all that when you can just pick up a cheap used router and set it up to be a bridge or repeater?

Easy, fast, and done.

Non-technical PC users should not use this software, so WARNING, WARNING, WARNING.

It is NOT because the software is no good. It probably is fine.
But, if you do not understand this type of technology, DO NOT USE IT or you will have problems that you may not be able to back out of, such as uninstalling; protocols, drivers, etc.

But, if you must, INSTALL IT ON A TEST OR SPARE PC FIRST.
But, if you must, MAKE TOTAL BACKUPS OF YOUR PC.
But, if you must, READ EVERYTHING FIRST.

Look at what you are doing as a CHAIN OF EVENTS, from PC to PC in your network - EXTENDING THE RANGE OF YOUR WI-FI ACCESS.

PLEASE, BE VERY CAREFUL. Make backups FIRST.

So does this only work for devices running this Windows driver? Let's say I have a WiFi TV media player not running Windows that's too far away from my router, and I want to use a laptop running this driver as a relay. Does that work, or would the media player also have to be running the Daihinia driver?

Does it work as a wireless to wired relay? (for example if I had the relay laptop connected to the internet router via powerline ethernet)

#24.
Yes it does seem to turn a computer into a Wifi repeater.
Hopefully people will realise that they repeater computer has to be switched on for the whole time that people further down the chain are accessing the internet, otherwise they'll lose their connection.
So if all you are doing is keeping old PCs switched on to give other people internet access, they power bill will soon be greater than the cost of a dedicated repeater.
Obv. If each repeater PC is being used, the proposition changes - but this isn't a "free" wifi repeater - the electricity will cost.

I set up with 5 laptops (A->B->C->D->E). The software worked beautifully UNTIL I shutdown "C". Apparently, each laptop must be up and running to form the chain. This will work with a bunch of desktop computers that are running continuously, but with laptops only running for a few hours max before shuttting down, this is not a practical solution.

Sorry to be off topic folks...
A question for Giovanni (Comments 12 & 14):
I bought one of those $400 Z-Boost YX545 (junk), cell phone boosters..., bought 50' RJ6 cable, put up a 30 ft. tower (in cement), isolated the cell antenna 4' from metal and get full bars on my cell in a fringe area. Can't make a call or text though and it took me longer than the 30 day return to find that out. Any sites where I might find some useful information, similar to the ones you mentioned for boosting WiFi signal, but for cell phones instead. Free is good but I'm into this a few bucks now soo...
The only help Z-Boost offered was to try and sell me another antenna...I should have bought Wilson, LOL. Thanks

#25 and #27, only if the software can be installed on the phones.

#3 benny – Can’t see what looks “convoluted” to you.


"Unlike other solutions that allow mesh topology only between Access Points, Daihinia uses IBSS Mode and adds mesh functionality directly to computers, and does not use Access Points at all."

Here, you've lost everyone but the serious techies out there. It's not really convoluted, grammatically, but terms like "mesh topology" and "IBSS Mode" are going to be foreign to most people.

You have my sympathy. I often have to explain scientific and mathematical topics to the educated, nonspecialist reader and ... It can be challenging.

Can I use this software to connect my Android phone's wifi capability to my computer's wifi connection?

# 23. James K.


Dude, you made me lough...LOL!

No offense meant for you but you look like a little bit paranoid...hey, are you OK?

This tool is clearly meant for networking purposes (think how useful can be in a working office or at School/University etc...).

Internet café owners may get angry bcs of this tool? Come on, most of them has no idea who really use their wifi connection (you need advanced networking skills that just a few of them have....)

But apart from that, even a CAR can be used to kill people on the road...so what should we do? Forbid the sale of cars?? LOL!

Come on...be serious man!!

But anyway, thanks for existing: you definitely made my day...LOL!

# 17

Well, as # 10 rightly noticed, this GAOTD is much more than a simple sw to extend the router signal, because it actually creates a new ad hoc network among several PC bypassing the Access Point range limitation.

As for removing the driver you don't need a disk imaging tool....

First of all, to make this tool effective, you need to install the driver in any PC of the Ad hoc network...

But if for some odd reasons you change your mind about it, you don't need a Disk Imaging tool....

http://www.toms-world.org/blog/restore_point_creator

Or just use this excellent FREE tool to safely uninstall any unwanted driver device running in your system:

http://treexy.com/products/driver-fusion#free-features


# 20

I think you can do that....the only requirement your PC must have to make it work is a WiFi adapter supporting of Ad-Hoc mode (most of the modern laptops out there actually support it).

So if I use this, the computer in the house will extend the wifi on it to further afield, so I could walk around outside & use same wifi on mobile phone?

this progy is almost the same thing that i have. i have a wifi repeater. works the same way almost

I don't understand what people don't understand about how this works.

This allows you to create a network in which every computer is an access point, and as long as one computer in this network has access to the internet, they will all get access. It's very true to the original design of the DARPANet, which was created to react to large portions of the network simply evaporating (quite literately), and still have communications find their own way to their intended (military) recipients.

How this program works is that your communications get routed through other people's computers, if necessary, as if they were internet servers or backbone.

The physical reach of the network CAN expand as each new person joins. Though most likely people will not spread out evenly, and so not enlarge the network's reach.

The upside of this is that your network spreads as it get's physically larger. Meaning that if you join the network, and you are at it's boundary, your computer becomes a repeater, extending that boundary even further.

Example:
So, for instance, you are sitting by the windows at an internet cafe with a good internet connection, and your friend is sitting outside the window with with a bad or no internet connection. You install this package (probably on both computers), and now your laptop can act as a "repeater", and extend the coverage to the other side of the glass (assuming the problem was the cafe's access point was too far away). Then your friend can also act as a repeater, allowing others to connect. I imagine that internet cafe owner's (or actually ANYONE who offers a free or pay network connection) would NOT be happy to find that other people, outside his establishment have been able to piggy back on top of your connection. I imagine somebody in the restaurant down the street being able to surf, even though THAT establishment doesn't offer internet, because there are enough people between him and you using this software that your connection can reach him.

This has the potential to route EVERYONE's communications through a single computer, in this case YOURS, SLOWING it down for everybody, but especially you're computer that's dealing with everyone's traffic, PLUS whatever YOU are doing.

Pros:
* Internet Service can be made to reach places that it couldn't before.

Cons:
* I'm sure that you have to install the software on everyone's computer who wants to access these temporary networks.

* The networks are unstable and temporary by their very nature, because people who are acting as backbone will come and go. If a vital link between two larger networks, only one of which has the internet access, decides that his lunch is over and so leaves, the network will be broken in to two parts, only one of which will have internet.

* Many people's computers will be slower, because of the new duties that they will have in the network.

* I can imagine that there can get to be so many different computers trying to communicate with each other, that the whole shebang screeches to a halt. Like all internet access crashing at one of Bill Gate's demonstrations because everyone's phone was offering internet access, and there were just too many.

* If anyone is doing something illegal while communicating through your network connection, your computer will be one of the one's the FBI will want to look at.

* The people offering the original internet connection WILL NOT be able to control WHO HAS ACCESS. So, if you pay for your network connection, whoever can connect to you DOES NOT NEED TO PAY, because he's just piggy-backing on top of your signal. The routers will think that it's just more communications from you... because it IS!

* The more people sharing a single connection, the slower that connection will become. On the up side, it's possible that if several people are connected to the original access point (like Starbucks), it's possible that people could get a boost in speed, because they can send and receive through several connections to the internet simultaneously, though that would require load-balancing etc.

Reminds me of an experiment that someone (Google?) did with allowing cell phones to expand their own network. Enabling them to bring cell phones into poorly connected urban areas. Heard about it a couple of times, then nothing.

this fixed wlanapi.dll install error using XP SP2

http://2-windowserrors.com/fix-wlanapi-dll-error/

#17 You can see in the third screen of the application that it is possible to use at least WPA2 encryption.

A question to all the genius tech here about this program: does it work with WAN broadband or not and can I connect to my own broadband WAN from my laptop in one room to also get the Internet in my PC in another room?
I'm asking this to know if I need to download this interesting software...

@Petar: That´s nonsens - Ad-Hoc never runs over a router - it´s a "machine-to-machine" connection...

Hadn't a clue what this program did on my first look on the site today and in the attempt to research it got further bogged down in highly technical protocol explanations.
However, I did find one link that sheds some light on this system giving a few examples on its usage in graphical form.

Just hope it helps the equally bewildered. It is:-
http://mimo-mesh.com/media/ray.pdf

A good new idea to be tested yet (by people with long distance networks who haven't already bought a repeater).

A system driver is digging deep into the system and may be hard to get rid off again. Before installing please backup with an imager! And you need a lot of faith to the unknown manufacturer! I suppose anti-virus software won't be useful. So Virustotal's results ...? Would be very interesting to know how GOTD has tested this!

Only 7.78 MB? Themida has suddenly shrunk or this driver alone is so big - earlier operating systems have been smaller!

You don't need a repeater, but every in-between computer has to be online permanently (power consumption, wear). And it's probably costing some speed increasing with the number of participating computers.

And #7 questions (passwords of computers) haven't yet been answered by Daihinia. What about wpa2 etc.?

Also please make sure that you have your Windows installations fully updated. Yes, many-many times, until it explicitly says that no more updates are available.

When i try to instal the driver, I am getting an error......

GetLastError0=GetLastError0 followed by some Chinese characters.

Please let me know if anyone is getting this error

Oh... another way to boost the wifi signal of your router is actually to buy an antenna like this:

http://www.freeantennas.com/projects/template/index.html

Or....

http://lifehacker.com/296367/boost-your-wireless-signal-with-a-homemade-wifi-extender
http://www.freeantennas.com/projects/template/index.html
http://thechive.com/2011/08/09/how-to-boost-your-wifi-signal-with-a-beer-can-7-photos/


LOL!!

Some users have reported that they got errors from the GOTD activator on win7-x64 systems. Try to run it in XP compatibility mode, hope that will help.

Also, why don't so many of you read GOTD's readme? ;) It says clearly that you have to click "unlock!" in daihinia after you started GOTD's activator... :)

LOL.... 63% THUMBS UP in a blink of an eye without having any idea what this tool actually does....this absolutely outclasses Aieesoft's dirty tricks for good!!

This is definitely a funny forum....LOL!

To understand what this software actually does I think people need a degree in IT science + a CISCO certification in networking...LOL!

Key terms ==> Multi-hop Ad-Hoc networks + Mesh Network funcionality

http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~rheath/research/multihop
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesh_networking

When you connect to an ACCESS POINT (Public or Private), your machine communicates only with that Access Point, even when you send data (for instance an email) to another PC in the same WiFi network: in this case data travels to the Access Point first, which then send it in the air to the target machine in the network. To make sure that everything goes smoothly all participants in the network must be in the same range of the Access Point, but if the Access Point suddenly stops working the whole network fails as a result of that.

On the other hand, there is a so called "Ad-Hoc Mode" (also called IBSS), when all PCs into a network act as a sort of PEERS with equal rights, thus sending data directly to each other without needing to communicate to the Access Point first.

So what this tool does is to add the mesh functionality directly to any networked computers, turning a simple Ad-Hoc network into a Multi-hop Ad-Hoc network, by relaying packets from one PC to another one by using a computer in the middle (for nstance when two computers are out of range for each other): this way the communication between several PCs into a wifi network will always work, even if computers are NOT in the range of the Access Point.

In other words with this GAOTD users will no longer need any Access Points to build their network, since this tool is based on WiFi's Ad-Hoc mode of operation (obviously you need a WiFi adapter capable of Ad-Hoc mode to make it work).

So overall this GAOTD could actually be a very handy tool for those who use several LAPTOPS in home and small office networks, and are eager to use them as a sort of chain or path to the central PC (Server) designed to share its wired web conection to the wireless mesh network.

BEST FREEWARE ALTERNATIVES??

Dudes...don't ask me too much...be happy with my explanation!!

You could do one thing though, namely turn your laptop into a sort of hotspot access point: why not do that for FREE??

http://www.mypublicwifi.com/publicwifi/en/index.html
http://www.connectify.me/hotspot
http://www.wifihotspotcreator.com
http://sourceforge.net/projects/movirtualrouter

Enjoy!!

Further to my previous comment, I'd like to add that the software seems to be a good idea well implemented and very reasonably priced (especially when commercial use is allowed).

I'd just like to see the drivers signed - the Windows "unsigned drivers" warning is unsettling, especially with drivers of this nature.

...Getting back to TODAY's offering:
Actually it's more than just extending the range of your router. A router is used to create an infrastructure network - i.e. one base to which all computers connect. This product is used to create a special ad-hoc network i.e. a computer-to-computer network (without a router).

Now normally, if you have such a network using computers A, B, and C, then all of these computers will need to be within range of each other: A and B must be able to communicate directly, similarly B and C, also A and C.

With this product, as long as A can communicate with B and B with C, then A and C do not need to be in range of each other: B will relay the signal from A to C. Similarly, a computer D that is also not in A's range or in B's range will be able to communicate with all the computers as long as it can reach computer C. The signal can "multi-hop" through the system.

Safety issues are basically the same as other wireless networking systems (encrypted signals - which can of course be tapped into). Just remember that this system will extend the physical range of the network and technically anyone tapping into a computer way out on the periphery could have access to the whole network.

I haven't yet tested this fully, but certainly any computer expected to relay signals would need to be running the software. I don't know if a peripheral computer that can communicate with a relaying computer and still "see" the whole network using only standard Windows components.

Hope this helps.

a)Would the password of the "middle" computer need to be known by the one furthest away?
b)& would the speed & usage limits of the middle comp be compromised, or does this software just skirt the WIFI (sort of bounce on the network & reach the main hub)?
c) Does this software have to be on both the comps?

Finally a program that seems really useful, I'll download it as soon as I get back from school.

$10 without giveaway & commercial usage allowed, that's quite extraordinary here.

Extremely interesting product, it allows your computer's wireless network card to also act as a repeater thereby extending the range of your wireless network. Mesh networks have their place, but be aware there is also increased latency (slowness) as a consequence of each hop. If it works, the asking price ($10) is a good deal, free is even better, but this software probably has a really limited appeal. I don't need it. However, I bookmarked the website in case I ever do, so thanks GOTD for making me aware of it.
Oh well, its only 24 hours to the next giveaway.

Will not install the driver under Windows 8 (64) (Hp pavillion) says "GetLasrError()=GetLasrError()=GetLasrError()=GetLasrError()=Cannot cerate a file when that file already exists.

But I've tried uninstalling the driver which wasn't installed

Does this work on Windows 8 ?

For #1 Let us say your WiFi router has a maximum range of 50 meters any thing on the network that is more than 50 meters away from the router will not be able to send or receive. So far understandable what this software will do is use for example a PC on the network that is only 25 meters away from the router and use it to extend another 50 meters from the PC (in theory)so now you "boosted" to 75 meters. I hope this helps.

benny - Can't see what looks "convoluted" to you. I know someone will want to smack me for grossly oversimplifying but basically this allows each client of the WiFi net to rebroadcast. Your machine doesn't have to pick up the signal from the router, only from the nearest machine that's connected.

@29 papin (yesterday)

Man(/Lady) don't take this wrong, but i sincerely hope that no poor newbie tries 'that' ("...4mat...") command... - DO NOT BE SURPRISED what 'some' users will do...

Could we all plz use asterisks* in words/commands that 'some' might try (especially by cut-and-paste). (*or some other suitable letter). (Years ago) my wife had more than a 4yr degree in Acct., yet she still used such a command - TO HER CHAGRIN - at work...

Remember that some have actually asked where the [Any] key is...


((Plz don't no flag because i'm posting re yesterday AND one of the first posters (we all know that the early bird gets wormed around here sometimes...) - i MUST get to sleep and have to post when i can...))

Re: yesterday's product: i too am very leery of vendors with spelling problems and selling (what some consider to be) snake oil...
Re: today's offering: i'm as ignorant as a turnip - BUT i have seen things on TV that would make me be VERY CAREFUL of something that sounds this powerful...

Can you tell us again what this does, without all the technical bumf. That has to be one of the most convoluted descriptions, without giving anything away, I've ever seen