Wireless Question

[jfwebber]

I have a small business client I do some work for. He has an acer laptop running vista home premium. The laptop has an atheros ar5007eg wireless card. He purchased a Linksys wrt150n router that I set-up for him.

I have absolutely no experience with vista. From using his laptop while traveling I noticed vista has retained the name of all of the wireless networks as well as the one the wireless card in the laptop has picked-up. I have put his wireless network as the first one in the list. However, it continues to connect to an unsecured wireless network that is in his area.

Is there a way in vista to ensure that it attempts to connect to his network first? I did delete all of the other networks, however, they seem to reappear after every reboot.

If my ramblings do not make any sense let me know an I will try to clarify.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Jim W MCSE CCNA
Network Manager

 

[BadBigBen]

Right Click on the preferred network...

Properties -> Connections (might be called something else, but the first TAB on the opening window)...

There you can tell VISTA to AUTOMATICALLY connect to that network...

Ben

"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."