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"one or more wireless connections are available"
I've had a lot of grief with DLink wireless routers (614+ and 714P)
and switched to a Netgear router and having much better success. However, on all three wireless routers, I've had issues with XP on my laptop. I broadcast my SSID, and I have WEP turned on with the strongest encryption I can get (performance isn't that big of an issue for me at this time). Trouble is, some of my neighbors (8-unit apartment building) also have wireless, and my system keeps kicking me off of my wireless connection, saying "one or more wireless connections are available" and I have to click to re-select my own network even though I was happily connected to it. At first, it was only one neighbor, but as of this morning, three of my neighbors all have wireless access points now, broadcasting SSID's (two of them are the default SSID for their SMC and Linksys products, the third was a customized name). Is there ANY possible way to tell XP to completely ignore any SSID's that are not on my 'Preferred Networks' list? My girlfriend has wireless at her place, so I have that listed, and I frequent many of my neighborhood Starbucks 'cause I'm an addict and use T-Mobile's HotSpot while I'm there... But those are the ONLY networks I want to have available to me. I've debated telling XP to NOT let Windows manage my wireless network settings, but I dunno what that would do for me. Any assistance would be very much appreciated. |
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"one or more wireless connections are available"
Xref: kermit microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web:211443
Disable "Automatically connect to non-preferred networks". http://support.microsoft.com/?id=811427 "ian douglas" wrote: I've had a lot of grief with DLink wireless routers (614+ and 714P) and switched to a Netgear router and having much better success. However, on all three wireless routers, I've had issues with XP on my laptop. I broadcast my SSID, and I have WEP turned on with the strongest encryption I can get (performance isn't that big of an issue for me at this time). Trouble is, some of my neighbors (8-unit apartment building) also have wireless, and my system keeps kicking me off of my wireless connection, saying "one or more wireless connections are available" and I have to click to re-select my own network even though I was happily connected to it. At first, it was only one neighbor, but as of this morning, three of my neighbors all have wireless access points now, broadcasting SSID's (two of them are the default SSID for their SMC and Linksys products, the third was a customized name). Is there ANY possible way to tell XP to completely ignore any SSID's that are not on my 'Preferred Networks' list? My girlfriend has wireless at her place, so I have that listed, and I frequent many of my neighborhood Starbucks 'cause I'm an addict and use T-Mobile's HotSpot while I'm there... But those are the ONLY networks I want to have available to me. I've debated telling XP to NOT let Windows manage my wireless network settings, but I dunno what that would do for me. Any assistance would be very much appreciated. |
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"one or more wireless connections are available"
Dan wrote in message ...
Disable "Automatically connect to non-preferred networks". http://support.microsoft.com/?id=811427 Already done, but I still hop wireless connections. -id |
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"one or more wireless connections are available"
If you have an application that manages the wireless card, use that
instead. ... Don't let windows manage the card. Wish I had the option of that. My wireless card was built into the laptop by Toshiba, and have no third-party tools to manage it. If I un-select the option to let Windows manage my wireless, how would I tweak it manually? |
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"one or more wireless connections are available"
If you have an application that manages the wireless card, use that
instead. ... Don't let windows manage the card. Wish I had the option of that. My wireless card was built into the laptop by Toshiba, and have no third-party tools to manage it. If I un-select the option to let Windows manage my wireless, how would I tweak it manually? |
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"one or more wireless connections are available"
If you have an application that manages the wireless card, use that
instead. ... Don't let windows manage the card. Wish I had the option of that. My wireless card was built into the laptop by Toshiba, and have no third-party tools to manage it. If I un-select the option to let Windows manage my wireless, how would I tweak it manually? |
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