Establishing a Wi-Fi connection is pretty straightforward on Android, Chrome OS, and Windows, as you just need to have the sender and receiver devices connected to the same Wi-Fi network. However ...

In the screenshot I posted above, you’ll notice that my Windows PC isn’t connected to a Wi-Fi network at all, yet it’s still receiving a file at ~30MB/s. I thought that was odd given that ...

Now click on “Show hidden devices” under “View”. In the main window, click on the small arrow in front of “Network Adapter” and right-click on “Microsoft Wi-Fi Direct Virtual Adapter”.

Since this is Wi-Fi, file transfer occurs at a significantly higher speed, almost 20 times faster than what is possible over Bluetooth. However, this will come at a very high energy cost compared ...

PC users can disable or remove Microsoft Wi-Fi Direct Virtual Adapter on Windows 11/10 using any of the methods described in this post.

What Wi-Fi Direct means to you One upgrade, on one device, and peer-to-peer connections will abound everywhere on your network, running through that device.

Kind of like an ad hoc wireless network. Though I am not an expert on wifi direct. This would be best served in the networking forum however. A mod will move it.