Re: Too Many Wireless Conections

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From: CZ (CZ_at_no99spam.com)
Date: 10/27/04 

Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 21:19:10 -0700

> I have a centrino based laptop using a wireless router. The problem is
> that
> there appears to be about 4 wireless connections in the area. I have a WEP
> Key on my router and I am trying to force my laptop to see only my
> connection. However it sometoimes tries to connect to the other
> openrouters
> and therefore I keep dropping my connections.
> Is there anyway I can only look at my own router and ignore the others
> that
> the computer tries to conecto to?

Jeff & dsirjuesingh:

1) On the AP-router:
Enter a unique SSID

2) Set the following on the XP WiFi client:
The unique SSID as the only entry in Preferred Networks.
Enable: "Access point networks only" setting
Disable: "Automatically connect to non-preferred networks" setting
Enable: "Whenever this network is detected, Windows can connect to it
automatically" (set via the Connection tab)

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