Re: Wireless Problem With Vista

On 2008-12-30 22:38:40 +0000, +Bob+ <nomailplease@xxxxxxxxxxx> said:

On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:48:27 +0000, Andy Hauss <zuzubot@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

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.

I would do two things:
1. Remove the Acer Net Management and let windows handle the network
2. Delete one of the Andy networks (Andy 1).

Thanks for your help. How would I go about deleting one of those ANDY networks?

Andy

.

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