Virtual router: what is it and how to configure it. Fixing the error: Virtual Router Plus could not be started

Plus is a unique means of organizing Wi-Fi distribution from a computer or laptop that has the appropriate adapter installed. However, problems can arise quite often. At the same time, the application reports that it cannot launch “Virtual Router Plus” (this is how the name of the program is translated from English). Why this happens and how to fix this unpleasant problem, see below. There are several reasons for the error and methods for correcting it.

Why can't I start Virtual Router Plus?

So, first things first. There’s probably no need to explain how to launch Virtual Router Plus. To do this, in the connection setup window there is a single button with the appropriate name.

Another thing is the appearance of an error with a message stating that “Virtual Router Plus” cannot be started. What is this connected with? Among the main reasons for this failure, experts cite the following:

disabled or missing Wi-Fi module;
disabled VPN network;
uninstalled virtual adapter in the system;
problems with network card drivers;
lack of network support by the driver.

Can't start Virtual Router Plus (error): Wi-Fi module check

In the very simple case you need to make sure that the Wi-Fi module itself is turned on and in an active state. For example, in most laptops, a special key combination is used to activate it (Fn + one of function keys- F or something else).

Less common is the presence of a special switch on the device body. In any case, you immediately need to check whether the module itself is enabled, because there are often situations when in a hurry (if a key combination is used), even while typing, it could be accidentally disabled. This is the simplest thing that can happen, however, as a rule, this is not the problem.

Checking network status

Let's assume that the Wi-Fi module is turned on and working normally, but the message "Virtual Router Plus cannot be started" appears again and the network icon in the system tray is highlighted.

In this case, you should try to update the list of available networks or check whether the network you want to connect to is turned on. This can be done in the networks and sharing section located in the standard “Control Panel” by selecting the option to change parameters network adapter. If the network is displayed in the list, but is not active, right-click to bring up the menu and select enable from there.

Checking the virtual adapter and activating it

But the problems may not end there either. Another reason that when trying to establish a connection, the system cannot start “Virtual Router Plus” may be the absence or disabled state of a special Microsoft Virtual Adapter Wi-Fi Miniport adapter or something like that (the name may vary, however in any case, Microsoft will appear in it).

To check its status, you should enter the “Device Manager”, having previously used the command mmc devmgmt.msc in the “Run” console, or in the corresponding sections in the “Control Panel”, or in the computer administration settings.

If such an adapter is visible in the list of devices, right-click additional menu and use the “Engage” line (this can also be done from the properties window).

Installing drivers

The error "Virtual Router Plus cannot start" may appear even if the adapters are installed. Most likely there is a problem with the drivers. Two types of situations can be distinguished:

The device appears in the list, but does not work or does not work correctly;
There is no device in the list at all.

In the first case, the device can be marked yellow marker, which clearly indicates incorrect operation.

The solution could be reinstallation new drivers with preliminary removal of old ones. This can be done from the same properties menu.

If the device is not in the list, but the user is firmly convinced that it is there, you can try to install the drivers manually by first downloading them from the Internet. If this does not help, you will have to use the “Found New Hardware Wizard” and let the system search for the most suitable suitable driver (automatic search). In the case when the program Virtual Router Plus and after that it does not work, you should search for new equipment again, but install drivers by searching on local computer or at the specified location.

Finally, in order not to perform all these operations manually, you can install automated program search and installation of the most fresh drivers for all devices present in the system without exception. This could be, for example, most powerful utility Driver Booster, which accesses the hardware manufacturer's resources on the Internet and installs the latest driver modifications without user intervention. True, for this you will have to find a place where there is a connection.

Wi-Fi problems

Finally, another reason that the program throws an error when trying to establish a connection. It may very well be that what is installed on the system is simply not supported by the OS itself, i.e. the equipment is outdated. The problem may be with the router, but in this case breakdowns or physical damage are not considered. In software terms, on the router, as an option, you can check support wireless connections Wireless (switch or state must be Enabled).

And, of course, in this case the issues that some modern viruses capable of blocking the system when trying to create a connection. And if nothing helps at all, and the equipment, as it seems to the user, works quite well, you can try using Microsoft utility Fix It!, which can fix many problems, including Internet connection failures. But as practice shows, there is little hope for this, and the main problem lies precisely in the drivers.

Views: 2428 Virtual Router Plus, this is what it is great program, which allows you to configure Wi-Fi distribution from a laptop. Works in Windows 7, Windows 8 (8.1), and even in Windows 10. I have not yet written instructions for setting up Internet distribution via Virtual Router Plus, but I want to tell you how to solve one popular error, with

Virtual Router Plus is such an excellent program that allows you to set up Wi-Fi distribution from your laptop. Works in Windows 7, Windows 8 (8.1), and even in Windows 10 (Windows 10). I have not yet written instructions for setting up Internet distribution through Virtual Router Plus, but I want to tell you how to solve one popular error that many encounter when setting up Virtual Router Plus. This is the error: "The virtual router plus cannot be started." This is if you have the Russian version of the program. If in English, then the error: "Virtual Router Plus could not be started. Supported hardware may don't have been found". It looks like this:

Or like this, in version Virtual Router v3.3:

I want to say right away that if Virtual Router Plus does not work and this error appears, then there is no way to start Internet distribution. You will just see a different error, but the reason is the same. We already have three instructions on our website:

Wi-Fi distribution via command line in Windows 10 (Windows 10).
Setting up a virtual Wi-Fi network using the Switch Virtual Router program.
Distributing the Internet from a laptop in Windows 7.

If you want to configure distribution via the command line, you will see the error “The hosted network could not be started. The group or resource is not in the required state to perform the required operation." This is because the problem is most likely not in the Virtual Router Plus program itself, but in your computer. Main reasons:

Complete absence of Wi-Fi adapter.
The driver for the Wi-Fi adapter is not installed.
The adapter/driver does not support launching a virtual Wi-Fi network.
Wi-Fi is simply turned off.
The Microsoft Hosted Network Virtual Adapter is not enabled in Device Manager.

If you translate the error from English, it says that Virtual Router Plus cannot be launched because supported hardware was not found on your system. It doesn't matter whether you have Windows 7 or Windows 10 (Windows 10). Everything is the same there in this regard.

The tips from this article are suitable for solving problems with launching a virtual Wi-Fi network when using any method: the command line, or special programs.

Virtual Router Plus could not be started. Supported hardware may not have been found

As a rule, the error appears once after clicking the "Run" button virtual router plus". In the English version: "StartVirtual Router Plus".

Let's start solving the problem.

1 We check whether the adapter "Microsoft Hosted Network Virtual Adapter" is available and whether it is enabled. This needs to be done first. You can view it in the device manager. If you don’t know how to open it, then do this: press the key combination Win+R, copy and paste the line into the window mmc devmgmt.msc, and press Ok.

Or, go to My Computer, click right click mouse over an empty area, select Properties, and select Device Manager on the left.

In the manager, open the tab Network adapters, and see if there is an adapter called "Microsoft Hosted Network Virtual Adapter" or something like that. There may also be "Virtual Hosted Network Adapter (Microsoft)". If there is, and next to it you will see an arrow icon, then right-click on it and select Engage.

After this, the error in Virtual Router Plus should disappear. If you don’t have this adapter at all, and don’t even have a Wi-Fi adapter (as a rule, its name contains “Wireless” “Wi-Fi”), then see the next point, now I’ll tell you what to do.

2 Can't distribute Wi-Fi due to driver problems. This means that if we haven’t found a single wireless adapter in the device manager, but you are sure that there is Wi-Fi in your computer/laptop, then you just need to install the driver for the wireless adapter.

You can download it from the website of the manufacturer of your laptop/adapter for your model and for the operating system installed on your computer. Here detailed instructions: How to install drivers for a Wi-Fi adapter in Windows 7? It is also suitable for Windows 10 (Windows 10).

And if there is a Wi-Fi adapter driver, but there is no Microsoft Hosted Network Virtual Adapter, try updating the driver. By right-clicking on it and selecting Update (but most likely the update will not be found), or by downloading the driver and installing it manually.

3 Check if Wi-Fi is turned on. If you have Windows 10 (Windows 10) and you cannot find the buttons to turn on Wi-Fi, then see this article: how to turn on Wi-Fi in Windows 10 (Windows 10) when there is no Wi-Fi buttons. There is another article on this topic: how to enable Wi-Fi on a laptop with Windows 7.

You can also open “Network Control Center...” and go to “Change adapter settings”.

And see if the “Wireless Network Connection” or “Wireless Network” adapter is turned on (in Windows 10 (Windows 10)). If not, then turn it on.

Once you fix everything and turn on the wireless connection, you will be able to start distribution via Virtual Router Plus.

As practice shows, the driver is always to blame for such errors. More precisely, its absence. It happens that an outdated driver is installed, or it is simply crooked.

I hope this article helped you solve the problem of launching a virtual wireless network through Virtual Router Plus, or another method.

Hello friends! I recently wrote an article in which I talked about . But as it turned out, the method I wrote about in that article is not suitable for connecting mobile devices such as phones, smartphones, tablets, etc.

And if we take into account the fact that a lot of people want to set up a laptop for Wi-Fi distribution and connect to it mobile device, then I decided to correct the situation. This article can be considered a continuation of the previous article.

In order to make the laptop turn into a router and connect a mobile device to it, we will use the program Virtual Router Plus. It's small simple program, which is very easy to set up, which is what we will do now.

If you don’t understand what we’re going to do now and haven’t read the article linked above, then I’ll quickly explain.

Let's say you have a laptop and some other mobile devices that have Wi-Fi. And your Internet is connected, say, via cable and only to your laptop. There is no Wi-Fi router. Do you want to connect your phone or tablet to the Internet? So, we will force the laptop to take the Internet via cable (or in another way, for example via a USB modem. Just not via Wi-Fi) and distribute it via Wi-Fi. The laptop will be the access point.

There are several ways to set up distribution. You can use special programs, such as VirtualRouter Plus, Connectify Hotspot, or via the command line. I really liked the free VirtualRouter Plus program, so I’ll show you how to set it up. With her help, everything worked out the first time.

What do we need?

We will need a laptop (netbook, desktop computer with adapter) which has Wi-Fi. Internet that connects using network cable, or USB modem. VirtualRouter Plus program (I'll give you a link later) and the device that we will connect to the Internet (phone, tablet, etc.).

Is everything there? Then let's start :).

Setting up Wi-Fi distribution from a laptop

Let me remind you once again that the laptop must be connected to the Internet using a cable and not via a wireless network. Something like this:

And the connection status should be like this:

If everything is connected, we can continue.

Setting up the VirtualRouter Plus program

First download VirtualRouter Plus you can download version 2.1.0 (on which I configured) via the link, or . Links have been verified.

Download the archive and extract it to a folder. Run the file in the folder VirtualRouterPlus.exe.

A window will open in which we need to fill in only three fields.

Network Name (SSID)– in this field, write a name for your wireless network.

Password- password. The password that will be used to connect to your network. Specify a minimum of 8 characters, in English.

Well, on the contrary Shared Connection select the connection from which the Internet will be distributed. My Internet is connected via cable, so I left “Connect via local network”.

That's it, press the button. Start Virtual Router Plus.

All windows will become inactive and the Stop Virtual Router Plus button will appear (you can use it to turn off virtual Wi-Fi) . You can minimize programs and it will hide in the notification panel (bottom, right).

Connecting the device to Wi-Fi

Now take your phone, tablet, or whatever you want to connect (for example, I have HTC phone on Android), turn on Wi-Fi on it and look for it in the list available network with the name that we set in the Virtual Router Plus program.

I have this network:

Click on this network, enter the password (which we specified when setting up the program) and press Connect. It should look something like this:

You can already try to access sites from your phone (or other device), which receives the Internet via Wi-Fi from a laptop. But the connection is there, but the Internet may not work. This is true:). Just some more tweaking to do.

The device connects to Wi-Fi, but the Internet does not work

Return to your laptop, open the program in which we configured the distribution and press the button Stop Virtual Router Plus. Then right click on the connection status and select Network and Sharing Center.

On the left select Changing adapter settings. Right click on the adapter Local network connection and select Properties. Go to the tab Access.

Check the boxes like I have in the screenshot below. In the field Connection home network you need to select an adapter. Everything works fine for me when installed Wireless network connection 3 (You may also have a Wireless network connection 2, or another). Experiment.

Then in the Virtual Router Plus program we launch our network again. The phone should now connect automatically. The Internet should already be working. Everything worked for me, the sites opened!

Converting a laptop into a router was successful :).

Advice! You can add the Virtual Router Plus program to startup so as not to constantly launch it manually. I wrote about how to do this in the article.

Afterword

Of course, if possible, I would advise buying a router. Even some simple, inexpensive model, for example, will do an excellent job of distributing Wi-Fi to several devices. And you won’t have to torture your laptop :). In addition, the laptop itself will be able to connect via a wireless network, rather than distribute it.

But this method is also good. You can quickly set up a wireless network, even without a router.

If you have any problems, leave questions in the comments, or even better, on our forum. We'll figure it out. Best wishes!

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How to configure a laptop to distribute Wi-Fi and connect a mobile device to it? Setting up VirtualRouter Plus updated: February 7, 2018 by: admin

Hello readers of the blog of the ComService company (Naberezhnye Chelny)! I once wrote an article about how. Popular and useful to become (judging by the comments). Virtual Router Plus - good program, which does its job perfectly. But of course it wasn’t without problems.

For some, everything worked perfectly, but for others, while working with the Virtual Router Plus program, they observed an error. Which appeared immediately after clicking on the “Start Virtual Router Plus” button, that is, at the moment the network was launched.

This error looks like this:

In the comments to the article on setting up Virtual Router Plus (the link to which is above), they wrote about various errors. For example, the error “Cannot start virtual router plus” appears.

But that doesn't matter. These errors indicate that the program cannot start the network because it did not detect necessary equipment. If we are talking about Wi-Fi distribution, then we can suggest that the Virtual Router Plus program could not detect wireless adapter. Or for some reason cannot work with it.

Update:

The comments advised running Virtual Router Plus as an administrator. This helped get rid of the error. I think it's worth a try. Just right-click on the Virtual Router Plus icon and select Run as administrator.

1. Your laptop does not have a Wi-Fi adapter at all. This is of course unlikely, unless yours is very old. But it may be that there is an adapter on your laptop, but you simply do not have the driver installed for it. As a result, neither the system nor Virtual Router Plus can work with it. Or Wi-Fi is simply turned off.

It is worth adding that if you successfully connect your laptop to wireless networks, then this option can be excluded (see second point).

2. Recently, this topic was created on our forum. It just says about the problem with the error “Virtual Router Plus could not be started. Supported hardware may not have been found".

The author of the topic shared a solution to the problem. Updating the Wi-Fi driver helped. He used the Slim Drivers program for this task. But, you can download and install new driver manually. The link to instructions for updating drivers is above.

Indeed, Virtual Router Plus may not work with certain driver versions, or with certain devices. Therefore, you need to select a driver version that will be able to run the virtual network.

In the case when you have a computer with a Wi-Fi adapter or a laptop, and the connection to the Network is made using a 3G/4G modem, it may be necessary to distribute the Internet to a smartphone or tablet. To achieve this, you should make certain settings and take advantage of the functionality of a product such as Wi-Fi in the form Virtual programs Router Plus.

Setting up Internet sharing in Windows 7

Virtual Router Plus: virtual Wi-Fi router

For virtual Wi-Fi to work without errors, you should: search bar In the Start menu, enter cmd and open the file of the same name with the extension .exe. Then run the following command: netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow. This enables network hosting mode to be enabled. This can be verified after pressing the Enter key.

Further actions are extremely simple:

Connecting to a virtual access point

Go to the settings of your mobile device and activate Wi-Fi.
Find the access point you created and start the connection process.
A password entry window will appear, in which you should enter the password created when starting the virtual router.
Click the "Connect" button.

Virtual router: problems with Wi-Fi

Often a situation arises when a mobile device can be connected, but the Internet remains unavailable. In this case, the problems are less related to how the virtual Wi-Fi router. Basically they are:

blocked by an antivirus or firewall;
unable to obtain an IP address because the process hangs.

In the first case, the solution is to change the antivirus and firewall settings so that they do not interfere with the distribution of the Internet from the computer. As for the second option, here you need to go to the “Changes adapter settings” section, select the created wireless connection, right-click and find the TCP/IPv4 protocol in the properties. Then double-click and see if “Obtain an IP address automatically” is checked. If not, please note as this may affect your ability to access the internet. In addition, do not forget to restart your computer after completing all manipulations.

By the way, do not forget that after rebooting computer system, you should restart the Wi-Fi virtual router. Also, if you are using a new Wi-Fi adapter, then take care of installing drivers for it. Otherwise, the above steps should help you distribute the Internet with desktop computer or laptop.