CRN

Wi-Fi Direct: Boon Or Security Risk?

A form of peer-to-peer wireless networking, Wi-Fi Direct devices can establish wireless connectivity with each other without requiring a wireless router, hot spot or access point. The access itself is ...
Ars Technica

Difference between Wi-Fi Direct and DLNA?

Hope it's okay for me to ask the question here, wasn't sure if this was the right place or networking ... mods please move if this does not belong here. I thought DLNA uses the WiFi on device A to ...
Electronic Design

Expect More Wi-Fi In Consumer Electronics

Wi-Fi is increasingly being used in consumer applications like video, audio, digital cameras. Wi-Fi Direct Connect lets Wi-Fi devices talk to one another. Wi-Fi, the IEEE 802.11 standard wireless ...
Android Authority

Quick Share on Chrome OS might finally be as fast as it is on phones

Chrome OS currently does not support peer-to-peer Wi-Fi, but it looks like that will change soon. This will allow Quick Share (formerly Nearby Share) to work faster than it currently does on Chrome OS ...
Ars Technica

No base station required: peer-to-peer WiFi Direct is go

@spiff17, I'm no expert but AFAIK, ad-hoc still creates a single, weaker hotspot from one of your devices, which your other devices connect to. It's still the old router and client model whereas with ...