Virtual Wifi Adapter Windows 10 Official

If you’ve ever used Mobile Hotspot in Windows 10, or run commands like netsh wlan set hostednetwork , you’ve unknowingly activated one of Windows’ most underrated features: the Virtual WiFi Adapter . What is it, really? A virtual WiFi adapter is not a physical piece of hardware. Instead, it’s a software-emulated network interface that piggybacks on your existing physical WiFi card . Thanks to a technology called Virtual WiFi (supported by most modern wireless adapters), a single physical radio can appear to the operating system as two or more separate adapters.