Disconnecting From Neighbors Wireless

[Falcon]

Okay, this is opposite from those who try to piggy-back on a
neighbor's wireless. I want to -stop- connecting to a neighbor. We
have a wireless setup and just a couple days ago a neighbor
apparently installed one. Zone Alarm popped up and told me about it.
All was fine until I tried to download headers in my Agent newsreader
and it told me I was connected on two computers. Low and behold my
laptop had decided to switch to the neighbors wireless connection.
How can I tell my laptop to only connect to our wireless router and
stop latching onto the neighbor? The SSID's are different - I named
ours Marconi (Cute huh?) and theirs is called "Default" (Yeah, they
have not secured it). At the moment I just use MAC addressing to
keep out casual snoopers and do not want to switch to WEP if it can
be helped. Any settings I can do to make my wandering laptop stay
home?

 

[Falcon]

Set your AP and your wireless NIC to use a particular frequency that isn't
being used by your neighbour's AP. You have a choice between 2 to 11.

How do I do that? We use 11, neighbor uses 6.

 

[Falcon]

If you have the connection icon in the system tray, right click it and select Status, then click Properties. Go to the Wireless Networks tab. In the Preferred networks list, locate your neighbor's network, highlight it and select Remove. Next click the Advanced button and make sure that Automatically connect to non-preferred networks is unchecked.

Okay, done, that seems to have fixed it.