Can't connect Windows 8 to N9 Hotspot
 

Has anyone tried connecting a Windows 8 device to an N9 Wifi hotspot?

Recently, I have decided to get a Windows 8 tablet. I chose it over Android because the latter cannot connect to ad-hoc wifi (surprisingly, Asus Transformer pads can see and connect to the wifi, but not the internet). However, when I tried to connect to the wifi network created from my N9, the tablet could not connect. My 6-year-old MacBook and my sister's iPad 2 can connect without any problems, but the Windows tablet does not.

Additionally, after I try to unsuccessfully connect with the Windows tablet and then connect with the iPad, the latter establishes the connection with the phone, but cannot load any pages. After a while of trying to load a website, the icon on the N9 next to the iPad changes to the idle state (the one with Zzzz's).

Can anyone shed a light on this problem and help solve this issue? Thanks.

I'm not sure about Windows 8, but i know my Windows 7 PC cannot use ad-hoc wifi.

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This is incorrect. I used to use Win7 on my laptop and if I used internet connection sharing it used to create an ad-hoc network and if I wanted to connect to an ad-hoc network it was the same too.

I've read on Win8 being slightly more difficult to create ad-hoc networks so I'm sure if the tablet is a Win8 Pro not RT there must be a way to connect to ad-hoc networks via some obscure method...

Not too sure if Win8 RT supports ad-hoc though I'm pretty sure just like Android devices having work-arounds to allow device to connect to ad-hoc there must be some work-around for RT too...

Strange. My computer had never been able to see my N9, so I looked it up and read that it was because Windows did not recognize ad-hoc connections. If that is not the case, then I have no idea why my PC has never been able to see my N9.
(Sorry for getting off topic)

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This is so rare because my tablet and pc are using normally my n9 hotspot

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Well I have succeeded in connecting Windows 8 PC to N9 Hotspot. Not sure about tablets though.

Works flawlessly with PC.

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Ad hoc networks — You can’t create an ad hoc network in Windows 8 and Windows RT, but you can connect to an ad hoc network if one is in range (unless your PC is running Windows RT). There are third-party tools for creating ad hoc networks, if you need to do this.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...-in-networking

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A Windows 7 laptop is able to connect to the N9. My Windows 8 tablet is able to detect the wifi signal from N9, but cannot establish the connection.

Re: Can't connect Windows 8 to N9 Hotspot
 

Dinho,

You still haven't stated if your Win8 tablet is regular Win 8 or Win 8 RT... That would help steer discourse much better...

Re: Can't connect Windows 8 to N9 Hotspot
 

It's a Win 8 tablet, i.e. it is not an RT version.