Wireless Problem With Vista

Hi folks,

My Dad has an Acer laptop running Windows Vista. Tonight he experienced a strange problem.

Now, his computer had this Acer preinstalled programme called eNet Management which kept on disconnecting and reconnecting him and I had to disable that. I am mentioning this as it might be important but I am not sure.

Let's say we call our home network ANDY. When I go into the network connections window it says the strength of the network ANDY is poor - 34% to be exact. I also see another network coming up called ANDY 2. I have checked on my iMac and there is no computer network called ANDY 2 in our vacinity.

The interesting thing is that his computer reports the signal strength of ANDY 2 to be excellent - 96% or something like that. However, when we connect to ANDY 2 it then says the signal strength is 34% and the signal strength of the first ANDY I talked about is now excellent and at 96%! His connection doesn't appear to be dropping but I am just curious as to the origin of the poor signal strength and also why his computer is showing the home network twice. The network is password protected and when I viewed the settings for both the ANDY networks they were exactly the same and had the same password........

Any help would be appreciated!

Andy.

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