Bluetooth ad-hoc network question

How can I set up a Bluetooth ad-hoc connection with my Windows 7 pc. My pc only sees the Touchpad as a Bluetooth headset. My pc also is using the default Windows driver for the Touchpad and I can't find a specific one online. My goal is file sharing and letting my Touchpad to access the pc's WiMAX internet connection while I am out and about.
I will appreciate any help with this. - Michael
Post relates to: HP TouchPad (WiFi)

File sharing can be accomplished via wifi with apps like Wifi Media Sync, and Gemini File Manager.
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Having trouble setting up an Ad Hoc network with both iOS, Mac OS, and Windows.

So I'm skiing with some friends but we forgot to bring a router with us. The lodge internet is passable but we only have one ethernet connection. My friend connected his (windows) laptop to the ethernet and set up an Ad-Hoc network. The problem is that only Mac OS and iOS devices are able to connect to the network and use the internet. The windows machines and Droid devices can't connect or in some cases they can connect they can't use the internet.
My question is what special wizardry allows Mac OS and iOS to work fine on the ad hoc network but not the other platforms? Is there something I can do to get the other machines to connect to the network? Would things work better if I hosted the Ad Hoc network? Thanks for all the help.

Hi Munkiez, and a warm welcome to the forums!
See if this helps about halfway down is Wifi/Airport.
http://www.macworld.com/article/46658/2005/09/octmobilemac.html

Can connect to router but not ad hoc network. Works fine with iPhone.

My brand new ipad on ios 3.2.2 connects fine to my router and my jailbroken iphone running Mywi. However, I cant connect to an ad hoc network set up on my laptop running vista. My iphone connects to the ad hoc without any problems. I've tried everything, static ips, wep, wpa, hard resets, restoring, resetting network settings but no go. How can' everything else be fine but not connecting to the ad hoc network, especially since it works fine to connect with the iphone?
Btw, the ad hoc is for controlling music software on the laptop through wifi. It's not for getting internet.
Can anyone shed some light on this?
Many thanks,
L

Hi and welcome to the Apple Discussions.
Did you try doing a search, upper right corner of this window, on remote control? There have been a number of discussions during the last two weeks about remote control problems.
There have also been discussions about networking an iPad via another computer, such as iMac or MacBook Pro, using the computer's wireless card rather than a router.
See if one of those will answer your question.

Windoze Ad-hoc networks killing Airport Extreme Base Station

After having a horrible experience with an Orinoco base station sometime ago at his coffee shop, a client of mine asked me to install a new Wi-Fi access point to replace it. Since I'd never had a problem with my graphite Airport Base Station, I selected recommended that he try the Airport Extreme. Everything was been fine for over a year and half, with only the occasional interference problem, and even that easily fixed by a restart on the base station. Lately that has changed. We're in Baton Rouge, and since Hurricane Katrina, our population in our city has doubled (that's not an exaggeration), and the number of customers using the network in his coffee shop has increased as well - although it's still well below the maximum. The problem is that there are is large number of students from Loyola, UNO and Tulane who are now attending LSU, right across the street. And a significant fraction of those have ad-hoc networks set up on their Windoze notebooks, apparently unintentionally. When they come into the coffee shop their ad-hoc networks seems to cause the Airport Extreme to die, and not recover, until it is reset. This happens many times per day, sometimes more than once in an hour.
It had been configured to automatically select a channel, but I re-configured to use a specific channel (and have been experimenting with the particular channel). It seems to reduce the problem for a time, but then we'll have the problem back in force within a few days.
I have verified (using iStumbler) that there are no other "managed" networks near-by, and I have noticed that the problem ALWAYS happens when there is are ad-hoc networks, and after politely asking customers if I can check their settings, (it's scary how many people will let you poke around on their computer, if you seem like you know what you're doing) I've also seen compelling evidence that it is Windoze users, not Mac users, who tend to cause the problem. Incidentally at this particular coffee shop the Windoze:Mac ration is something like 60:40. What can I say, it attracts discerning customers. Since some of them have "lsuwireless" set up as an ad-hoc network (and as I said, LSU is across the street), my guess is that somehow these get set up, not on purpose, but accidentally, while trying to connect to the university's wireless network. Apparently the process is not so straight forward for Windoze users as for Mac users.
I have upgraded the Airport Base Station software to the latest available as of last week. Though I don't have that version number available at the moment.
So I have several questions:
1) Is this really the same radio interference problem that I've read about elsewhere on this discussion board?
2) Would an external antenna on the base station help? How about a powered one?
3) Aside from "Use Interference Robustness" and trying different channels, is there some configuration setting that I might be missing that could enhance the base station's reliability?
4) Does anyone have a suggestion for a permanent fix - preferably without switching to a different access point, although at this point, that's a viable alternative. After a year and a half of stable operation though, we're loathe to switch again unless it can't be avoided, because the Orinoco access point we used before had behaved exactly like this, but even worse, and without necessarily having ad-hoc networks being present to cause the problem.
5) Failing any other good solution, can anyone suggest a way to determine which computers are causing the problem without having to interrupt each customer to poke around on his computer?

I have an Intel based iMac and a MacBook Pro. Both
are (well until tonight) connected to the internet
wirelessly through the Airport Extreme Base station.
I've had no trouble up until now. Tonight for some
odd reason the MacBook Pro Airport card fails to
detect the Airport Extreme Base Station. It detects
OTHER wireless networks around the building, just
not the one it's supposed to connect to. Opening up
Airport Utility doesn't even show the Airport
Extreme Base Station being present. I know the Base
Station is not at fault - it works fine with the
iMac. Tried setting the Sharing mode on but that
didn't help either (not that I changed any of the
settings to begin with).
Can anyone help? I'm really at a loss here.
Any one? Any suggestions?

Which Airprint enabled HP-Printers support ad hoc network?

I want to buy a printer/scanner for my mother who uses an iPad 2 with 3G-connection. She doesn't have Wifi. Now there are several printers which support ad hoc network so that the Ipad could directly connect to the printer and print through Airprint.
First I thought about the Photosmart 5510 or 5515, but i read here in the forum that the 5510 doesn't support ad hoc network.
Can someone please tell me which printers i could use for printing through Airprint and an ad hoc network? Will scanning directly to the Ipad also work?
Thanks a lot and best regards, O.
PS. Meanwhile I found the term "HP wireless direct" which seems to stand in for an ad hoc network. Unfortunately I haven't found any list of printers which support HP wireless direct.
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LearningAdHoc,
I am going to speak from the prospective of the m251 laserjet printer with regards to wireless direct. If you are looking at this printer's control panel and turn wireless direct on, then your iOS device will detect it. You can even go into your Embedded Web Server (EWS) and change your wireless direct and Bonjour name if you would like to make it more recognizable or have more than one printer your would like to have on the network. Once you have done have turned on the wireless direct from your control panel, you go into your setting on your iOS device, wi-fi > choose a network > and choose the printer (caveat - the "spinning wheel" will keep turning, just ignore it). Go back to your setting main menu and you should see that your printer has been choose as the access point. You can then go into your photos, safari, etc and print from them by choose the action button and when the menu comes up choose print > select your print (should already be selected).
The wireless direct connection and the cellular internet connection can be used at the same time but a word of caution....if you have a wi fi network setup, you will have to jump between the 2 to print....make sense?
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Ad hoc network with airport extreme

Hi,
i have no problem setting up an ad hoc network for my canon dslr to wirelessly download images to my MBP after each shot is taken.
however, i would like to extend the range of this ad hoc network as i want to be able to shoot in another room. can i use the airport extreme to accomplish this?
if this is possible, may I know how to do it?
i do not need internet, so this airport extreme just needs to help me extend the range of my current ad hoc network.
Thank you very much in advance.

hi,
is my question too vague?
do let me know what other info do i need to provide?
Thanks again
appreciate any help.

ITunes Remote app on Ad Hoc network (Windows 7)

Is it possible to use the iTunes Remote to control a computer that is using a wireless card to create an "Ad Hoc" network. I plan on building a computer for storing my Apple Lossless files on a Windows 7 machine and using it strictly for playback as a standalone device. I will be pairing it with a USB DAC & Headphone amp combination.
I either need to buy a monitor (not wanting to do this) or find a way to be able to navigate my iTunes library from this machine without a screen (prefered). I will NOT have an internet connection at work where I will be using this, however I could purchase a wireless card to install in this itx machine to create an ad hoc network provided I could then use the iTunes Remote app to control playback and view albumn art, etc.
Is this setup possible, or am I chasing a dream?

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I can't connect to ad-hoc networks with my iPod touch 4g AND IT ****** ME OFF!! (running firmware 6.1.2) Please fix this extremely annoying issue ASAP!!

I can't connect to ad-hoc networks with my iPod touch 4g AND IT ****** ME OFF!! (running firmware 6.1.2) Please fix this extremely annoying issue ASAP!!

Try:
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- Change the DNS to either Google's or Open DNS servers
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How to turn off Ad-Hoc Network

Hi, I was running my wifi this afternoon and while exploring wicd I've accidentally added an Ad-Hoc Network. After the incident I can no longer see wireless networks both with archassistant and wicd....:(
Are there any ways to reset to default configurations? I need some help...:(
Thanks in advance...:)
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Sorry, I'm not sure. What's the output of "sudo /etc/rc.d/avahi-daemon stop" ? I'm not at my arch box now, but I'll check in about 24 hours.

Automatic creation of ad hoc network

I regularly have to facilitate workshops using Keynote slides. I use Keynote Remote to control the presentation which requires the creation of an ad hoc network that is password protected.
My procedure for this starts with the MBP where in the Finder menu bar I select the Airport Menu then Create Network… and fill in the text in the dialog box. Then turn on WiFi on the iPad and locate this network and join it using the password.
I tend to set the same name for my ad hoc network (showtime) and five digit WEP password which means that the iPad just locates and logs on automatically.
Now I want to automate the setup side as I want to reduce my set up time (and stress) when getting ready for a workshop (it's bad enough having to deal with strange data projectors and hard wired AV facilities) or when returning from a lunch break when I tend to take my MBP and iPad with me for security reasons.
I have found that Location services in the network pane of System Preferences completely lacking as it does not retain details of ad hoc networks users may create.
Anyone know of a good third party application that would automate this? Or a good Apple Script for Mac OSX 10.6.7 that would do it?

I'd forget about administering administrators, and framework-level activities here, and go down a level.
Here's a built-in low-level monitor for local networks:
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Resources/airport -s
You'll typically see the MAC addresses, names and channels involved. Polling that data could probably be scripted to broadcast a notification from a local (trusted) client, too. Roll that up with generic MAC data collection and you can probably identify the client device involved. (Until the gremlins discover MAC spoofing.)
The usual (technical) response to detecting and preventing these networks is not via client settings — phones can do ad-hoc these days, after all — but rather via tools that can explicitly detect rogue access points (APs) and such; an old intro and some Cisco Radio Monitoring details.
Some APs can send disassociate packets into rogue network, though that's a solution and an approach that I'd view rather skeptically, and would want clear and explicit administrative and legal buy-in before deploying anything like that. Same for collecting and saving MAC data and locality data; that can potentially be personally-identifying data. Remember also to account for the possibility of MAC spoofing when forming any administrative or disciplinary policies here, too.

Ios7 can't connect to wifi ad-hoc network

Hi,
I have a problem connecting my iPhone 4S to the ad-hoc wifi connection my macbook creates when "sharing" the ethernet internet connection through wifi, with iOS6 it worked flawlessy. I have no problems connecting in wifi to my router though.
Anyone experienced that? Could you try?
Thank you

For what it's worth, I contacted the support team at Avatron (the developer of Air Display) and asked whether they had any workarounds. Here's what they came up with:
Thanks for contacting us at Avatron support about the issues that you've been seeing when connecting via an ad hoc network. I was unaware of this problem but after doing some testing this morning it seems to happen with one of our iOS 7 iPad 2s as well.
While this definitely seems like something that Apple needs to address, I was able to get Air Display working over the ad-hoc network if I disabled internet sharing from the Mac System Preferences > Sharing pane. Obviously the drawback of this is that the iPad will no longer be connected to the internet when you are using Air Display in this manner.
Please let me know if this is able to serve as a temporary workaround while Apple investigates the problem.
Cheers,
Aaron
Technical Support
Avatron Software, Inc.
Clearly this is not a full fix as I can't access the internet when connected to my ad-hoc network, but at least I got Air Display running.
Their reply also suggests that this isn't a blanket issue covering all devices running iOS7, as only "one of [their] iOS 7 iPad 2s" was having the same problem.

I connected my ipod touch 4g wi-fi with laptop ad hoc network....it's showing wi-fi signals but internet is not working...what is the problem in that can anyone help me...inadvances thanks

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Connecting to an ipv6 ad-hoc network

hello
I am tryin to connect to an ad-hoc network with the iPad (iOS 4.2). As far as I know, from iOS 4.2, the iPad should be ipv6 capable. As my ad-hoc network is an ipv6 net, I wa pretty happy. However, when I connect to the ad-hoc net, it doesn't seem to be possible to enter a static ipv6 address. At least the input window for the address, netmask etc. looks exactly the same as if I would configure it for ipv4 and, as soon as I enter an IPv6 address and netmask and go back to the setting - then return, the static address is lost and the connection is automatically switched back to DHCP (eventhough there is no dhcp on the ad-hoc network).
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Hi @Handrlica,
Welcome to the HP Forums!
I noticed that you are wondering how to connect your HP Officejet Pro 8620 to an existing ad-hoc network. I am happy to look into this for you!
This printer does not have ad-hoc capability. However it does have these options of connecting: Wireless, Wireless Direct (similar to ad-hoc), Ethernet, and NFC.
I would take a look at connecting through either Wireless or Wireless Direct. Please see the following guides:
'Printer is offline' Message Displays on the Computer and the Printer Does Not Print: Windows 7.
Printing with HP Wireless Direct.
For future reference, here is your printer's specifications, and user guide.
Hope this clears things up for you, and have a great day!
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my PC wifi ad hoc is not listing up in Apple TV (3rd Gen) wifi networks, but it's working on my iPhone. i have searched in google and apple portal, they says it won't work with adhoc networks, if it's true will return back the Apple TV

did the google'
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I want to use AirParrot to mirror my Windows 7 to my Apple TV, but it doesn't connect a lot and is slow when I do it normally.
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did the google'
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4003835?start=0&tstart=0
more hits
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