yaro137 said:
All works fine till I take my laptop and get it connected to some
hotspot or any other wireless network. Then I get back home and cannot
reconnect to mine. It asks for the wep key which it should have
remembered. Every time I have to go to Network and Sharing Center and
Manage Wireless Networks and remove all the networks that I find in
there and then reboot. Then it works fine but it's a bit of a pain.
Any idea what may be causing that?
yaro
Check to see if you have "Connect to a more preferred network if available"
checked on the home wireless connection properties.
Right-click on network icon in the system tray
Select "Connect to a network"
Right-click on connection you use for you home network
Select "Properties"
Click "Connection" Tab
Uncheck box "Connect to a more preferred network if available"
"Connect to a more preferred network if available" makes your home network
the least preferred network to connect to.
When you go out and connect to a hotspot network, it creates a network
connection info. Having "Connect to a more preferred network if available"
enabled on your home connection it now uses any other connection recorded in
"Connect to a network" window, except your home network.
It maybe asking for WEP authentication on the new connection because it's
programmed behavior is to assume it can't make a connection due to security
rather than being out of radio distance. Signal strength may not be checked
to determine availability in case you are on the fringe of radio contact.
WEP is the first choice since it's the first authentication available for
wireless network connection and since there's no radio signal to determine
which authentication protocol is being used. It's simply going on
programmed assumption, which is it can't connect due to security rather than
being out of distance and WEP is assumed because it can't determine what
authentication is being used because there is no radio signal.
