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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.
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