Guest Newbie Posted September 17, 2007 Posted September 17, 2007 Hi All Got a brand new laptop running WinXP Pro SP2. Set it up to access a wireless network (no encryption - MAC control) in the office and one at home (128bit WEP - no MAC control). All done through WinXP's wireless part of the wireless network connection. Using built-in WLAN card on a Fujitsu Siemens laptop. Even though the Advanced properties shows 2 wireless entries (home then office in the list), the laptop isn't auto-picking up the office after first looking at the home connection. I have to go into the Network properties / Adanced Settings / Wireless Networks / etc and move the office entry up to the top for it to kick in. The end user is taking it home to continue working on it and I've just got this horrible feeling that they are going to have to go into the bowels of the network connection to put the Home one back up to the top. Surely the sys should check for the Home one, doesn't exist so move to the next one, ie the Office one, or am I asking too much? :0) Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong? Is there any switch script/app I could use so that the end user just clicks on the relevant one from their desktop? Thanks
Guest ernie Posted September 21, 2007 Posted September 21, 2007 Re: Wireless Network Switching There is a group dedicated to wireless but the "Wireless Zero" configuration tool seems to be able to do what you want on this machine. I am unable to say what might be wrong with yours but it has been pointed out, in this group, that you should not use the Windows and the OEM tools at the same time. HTH, ern. "Newbie" <fred@bilbo.com> wrote in message news:%230lIZfS%23HHA.5840@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > Hi All > > Got a brand new laptop running WinXP Pro SP2. > > Set it up to access a wireless network (no encryption - MAC control) in the > office and one at home (128bit WEP - no MAC control). > > All done through WinXP's wireless part of the wireless network connection. > > Using built-in WLAN card on a Fujitsu Siemens laptop. > > Even though the Advanced properties shows 2 wireless entries (home then > office in the list), the laptop isn't auto-picking up the office after first > looking at the home connection. > > I have to go into the Network properties / Adanced Settings / Wireless > Networks / etc and move the office entry up to the top for it to kick in. > > The end user is taking it home to continue working on it and I've just got > this horrible feeling that they are going to have to go into the bowels of > the network connection to put the Home one back up to the top. > > Surely the sys should check for the Home one, doesn't exist so move to the > next one, ie the Office one, or am I asking too much? :0) > > Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong? > > Is there any switch script/app I could use so that the end user just clicks > on the relevant one from their desktop? > > Thanks > > >
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