Wireless DHCP 2

[tgignac]

Hi everyone!

I have about 14 laptops with built in wireless. These laptops all access the wireless network at our office and at each of the users homes. I am having a problem with the laptops taking an enormouse amount of time to log in when no wireless network is available.

I am assuming that the wireless dhcp is trying to search for any available network to get an IP address from. Is there a way to specify a time out for searching for a wireless network?

My clients complain of at least a 3 minute wait from pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del to log in, to the explorer interface loading, yet when a wireless network is available, they are able to log in withing 30 seconds.

Help me please

 

[maxthedork]

For our Wireless laptops, we usually set up two hardware profiles, one with wireless enabled and one without. When the laptops are in use here they pick the "Wireless Network" hardware profile, and when they're out of range of a wireless network, they pick "No Wireless Access." The basic rule of thumb is that if they're on campus they pick Wireless Network, and if they're at home they pick No Wireless Access. Some of our users have wireless routers at home and use Wireless Network, but that's the exception not the norm. Anyway, doing this requires the user to make a choice on bootup but does greatly reduce bootup time when they're out of range.

 

[tgignac]

Fantastic... That works awesome. Its just too bad that Windows wasn't smart enough to realize that there is no wireless network and continue booting without spending 3 minutes looking for one.

Thanks for your speedy reply max

 

[maxthedork]

You're quite welcome (-: