"Nick Le Lievre" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "Toobi Won Kenobi" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>>I have a laptop that needs to be auto configured for one network and
>>manually configured for another.
>> Yet when I try and connect to the manually configured network it refuses
>> to do so, it takes an age trying to connect to the auto configured one.
>> Is there any way to force it to use the manually inputted IP addresses
>> after a certain ammount of time, instead of only looking for the auto
>> configured setting? I have tried the manual settings on the one page user
>> configured option and it connects OK.
>> Using WZC to connect.
>>
>
> I tried that last night I set my wifi adapter to be auto-configured but
> manual IP address as an alternate configuration. This enabled me to
> connect to other open wifi networks in my area and recieve an IP address
> automatically but when I connected to a network with no DHCP it would
> assign the manual address. It did take about 30 seconds to a minute before
> the manual IP address was assigned however as it spent the rest of the
> time trying to get an auto configuration. I don't think there is a way you
> can change the amount of time before it times out and uses the alternate
> configuration however I maybe wrong.
Hello Nick,
Many thanks for your reply, I have tried this with other PC's and it does
seem to work a lot quicker than on the laptop we are having problems with
( a Celeron with type B on board wifi). It tries for an age to auto
configure then nothing.
Again, many thanks,
TWK
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