Connecting To Strongest WAP?

When multiple WAPs for which it knows the password are present,
my iPod Touch senses which WAP is the strongest and connect to
it.

OTOH, my net book (Windows XP, SP3) always tries to connect to
the same WAP - even if it's signal is marginal and there's
another WAP 10 feet away.

Is there some setting that can be changed?

Or maybe a utility to replace whatever XP uses to locate/connect?
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> When multiple WAPs for which it knows the password are present,
> my iPod Touch senses which WAP is the strongest and connect to
> it.
>
> OTOH, my net book (Windows XP, SP3) always tries to connect to
> the same WAP - even if it's signal is marginal and there's
> another WAP 10 feet away.
>
> Is there some setting that can be changed?

I think that Windows works on a priority order - you can specify the
relative order in which Windows will connect to network, but I'm not aware
of anything based on signal strength.

For general browsing I can see the clear benefit of connecting to the
strongest signal, but for security considerations its probably better to be
able to specify preferred networks.

> Or maybe a utility to replace whatever XP uses to locate/connect?

I don't know of one, but I would seem likley that such a utility might be
out there. If you find one (and someone doesn't suggest it here) then please
post back.
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Brian Cryer
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