Thanks for your responses. What I meant by wifi sharing was, wifi direct, I am lead to believe is meant to act as an access point for direct communication between wifi enabled devices. I managed to get my phone and my laptop to recognise each other but I could not get a working connection. (nothing to do with the internet as the "HOTSPOT" feature works perfectly.) Then I forgot how I achieved this and now I can't even get them to recognise each other. According to the Wifi Alliance literature, if one device has wifi direct the device it is trying to connect to only needs to be wifi enabled and therefore I should be able to connect my compaq presario laptop to my Samung galaxy S2 phone shouldn't I ?