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Running a network without a router
Our holiday cottage will soon have a Dell Small Form Factor Windows 10 Pro PC. It would be handy if visitors could access the PC via WiFi, but would that necessarily involve having a router? I've worked with routers ever since the inception of Ethernet, but I've never come across a router-less setup.
It's easy enough to plug in a USB Ethernet adapter to the Dell, but what's doing to be doing the connection authentication?
I have a couple of old Zyxel routers left behind when we migrated to FTTC, and I can use one of those to get the WiFi Server function, but that's just another box to plug in and one more to go wrong.
Is there a program I can run on the Dell that would implement the WiFi server function?