wifi dongle to create a hotspot from my desktop pc windows 7

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I purchased a netgear a6210 wifi dongle thinking I could use it to create a wifi hotspot from my windows 7 desktop pc so that I could get wifi web access from phone around my home.
It doesn't work.
So can anyone recommend a wifi dongle which can create a local hotspot from my PC?

Note: I am using a draytek VigorNIC132 to connect to internet and do not have an external router hence the nee for a wifi dongle.

Thank you.
 
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Pretty much any will work fine to set up an ad hoc network and you can enable Windows ICS (Internet connection sharing) that does pretty well to create a hotspot, although a program called Connectify will let you do a lot more configuration.

One of the issues is that you want your phone to just connect (and not use a static IP), and that is where Connectify is excellent instead of ICS. You can do a trial of Connectify to see how well it works.
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Pretty much any will work fine to set up an ad hoc network and you can enable Windows ICS (Internet connection sharing) that does pretty well to create a hotspot, although a program called Connectify will let you do a lot more configuration.

One of the issues is that you want your phone to just connect (and not use a static IP), and that is where Connectify is excellent instead of ICS. You can do a trial of Connectify to see how well it works.
 
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