Re: Renaming a wireless connection

Lem wrote:
| RoseW wrote:
|| John Wunderlich wrote:
||| "RoseW" <wdmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
||| news:#u2aJSUzHHA.4844@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
|||
|||| Replaced a router with a Belkin that has wired and wireless in its
|||| features. Desktop is wired to this router.
|||| Laptop (IBM) found the wireless and connected with the name
|||| STEWART.
|||
||| Is "STEWART" the:
||| Wireless Router SSID name?
||| MS Networking Group Name?
||| Laptop Computer Name?
|||
|||| I still have a cable in the laptop for it to be part of a
|||| home network. The laptop will show up in the desktop without the
|||| cable but without the cable a pop up systray dialoque warns that a
|||| cable is not connected if the cable is not inserted
|||
||| This is normal if you have the "Notify me when this connection has
||| limited or no connectivity" box is checked in the Properties of the
||| Wired Connection Settings.
|||
|||| This is a contradiction to the manual which establishes that the
|||| default includes the name Belkin.
|||
||| I'm assuming we're talking the default SSID Name here?
|||
|||| Contacting Belkin resulted in the recommendation to change the
|||| name.
|||
||| It's usually a good idea to change the SSID name from the default
||| on a wireless router... It makes it easier to know your router
||| from the neighbors'. You usually change this name in the router,
||| not on your computer.
|||
|||| What do I have to look out for if the name is changed in the
|||| laptop?
|||
||| Which name?
||| Changing the Workgroup or Computer name of the laptop computer just
||| changes its name/workgroup in the network neighborhood screen.
||| Changing the SSID name on the router would mean that you would
||| choose a different wireless network name to connect to from your
||| laptop.
|||
||| HTH,
||| John
||
|| Sorry ...the name is the Wireless Router SSID name. I read in one of
|| the wireless or networking reference sites ...or perhaps in the
|| Belkin manual that to change the SSID name can cause a loss of
|| connection. That is what has stuck in my head, at any rate. Now it
|| also might have been in reference to a totally wireless set up and
|| the desktop is not connected solely with wireless since it is using
|| a cable.
|| The laptop has STEWART showing up as the Wireless connection within
|| the MShome network situation. The laptop just has the name 'laptop'
|| I just thought it odd that this name appeared since I don't have any
|| neighbours within 400 to 700ft using a wireless setup. I don't have
|| any neighbours with internet since I'm out in the rural area.
|| Rose
||
||
|
| If I understand you correctly, you left the SSID of your new router at
| its default (Belkin) and your wireless laptop connected to a wireless
| network with the SSID STEWART. That's someone else's network -- even
| if you're out in the country and don't have any neighbors withing 400
| to 700 feet.
|
| Assuming that you had nothing to do with creating the name STEWART,
| try this: have your laptop wirelessly connect to STEWART.
| Disconnect the power from your router and/or unplug the DSL cable.
| Is your laptop still connected to the Internet?
|
| What you probably are remembering is a warning that you will lose the
| wireless connection if you change the SSID in the router -- until you
| change the SSID in the laptop to match the new name in the router.
| That's to be expected.
|
| The wired portion of the network has nothing whatsoever to do with
| SSID.

RE: SSID STEWART is someone else's network. Oh, lovely...
I have unplugged the DSL cable and took the laptop outside to the patio and
the laptop connected to the Internet.
How you have written it above makes it less ominous.....Change SSID in
router and change SSID in the laptop to match new name....okay, got that.
I was hesitant to continue with the security settings when this name
automatically showed up (I didn't have anything to do with the name) and I
haven't used the laptop on the internet until I got a clear understanding of
this naming issue. Belkin support just wrote one sentence...Change the
name...and I needed more words than that to complete the picture in my head
<grin>

So I'm interpreting that I go into the router setup by typing in the laptop
network numbers and change the name in that router setup structure-then I
change the name in the laptop. After that I can do the security codes which
are in the Belkin router set up pages. That part seemed a little intricate
but I'll venture forth.
Rose



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