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lakinduakash / linux-wifi-hotspot

Feature-rich wifi hotspot creator for Linux which provides both GUI and command-line interface. It is also able to create a hotspot using the same wifi card which is connected to an AP already ( Similar to Windows 10).
BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
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Frustratingly misleading app description! #277

Open abraha2 opened 1 year ago

abraha2 commented 1 year ago

Hello. I am opening this issue because there is a section in your app's description that is frustratingly misleading. The text in that section states that you are able to host a hotspot, and connect to a wifi network at the same time. This is somewhat false, but false enough that it had tricked me into believing your app could allow a computer to host and connect to a wifi network, at the same time, no matter what network software, adapter, or built-in hardware was being used. This is simply not true. For example; I have a Raspberry Pi 4B. I downloaded this app, and tried to do just that. However, it didn't work. The Raspberry Pi's wifi hardware simply doesn't support that. As you can imagine, I was frustrated out of my mind for at least 5 months, trying, and failing to fix this so-called "problem," but I never got it to work. So, I am asking you to please change the app description accordingly, so no one else will be accidently misled, as I was.

Thank you.

RokeJulianLockhart commented 1 year ago

Because Windows 10 and 11 natively provide this, what https://github.com/lakinduakash/linux-wifi-hotspot/issues/277#issue-1414320364 suggests is more important because users probably expect this to be trivial to implement.

sigmaSd commented 1 year ago

Its not this app problem, its a linux driver issue.

I think we can add a line about this in the README, but I don't believe the description is misleading at all, it works on all my pcs and it does what it says.

I don't think its worth adding a note about windows because this software only works on linux.