Router-Free WiFi PC to PC Networking with WiPeer
By Alexander Grundner |
April 27th, 2007 
Network World has a story on a new technology called WiPeer (available as a no-cost download here) that allows PCs to be linked – up to 300 feet indoors, 900 feet outdoors – to one an other wirelessly without the need of a router. Sounds interesting, right? But you’re probably asking yourself how could you use this application. Read on for real-world examples (you might be surprised).
[Quoted] Suggested Uses for WiPeer:
- You are visiting your friends and would like to transfer photos of a shared trip from your laptop to theirs. Wouldn’t it be great if you could share your files with them directly from one computer to the other?
- You are sitting in a boring lecture. You and your friends all have laptops, but your university has not installed an access point in the lecture room. Wouldn’t it be great if you could play a game of Chess or Reversi against them, or even gossip with them about yesterday’s football match?
- You are stuck in an airplane for a long flight and you are looking for something to do. If you could only play a game of Chinese checkers with other passengers…
- You have a home network, or even a small office network, and you’d like to share files among your computers without having to set up a dedicated server. There has to be a simple way of doing this.
UPDATE: It looks like Lifehacker, got wind of WiPeer not too long ago. And after trying it out on a couple of laptops, they state: “This is an ingenious little application that solves the problem of trying to link up two or more PCs without the usual networking hassles.”
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