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I'm using Windows XP with the Intel PROSet/Wireless.

In a hotel in Korea I logged onto their Wifi. Later when I was in Manila, I
saw a access point with the same hotel name. There is no such hotel in
Manila. How did the s/w get confused? What is used to identify an access
point? The hotel access point had the Network Name 'default'. Is it that
simple that the one in Manila was also default and therefore my laptop
thought it was the Korean hotel? Does anything else have to match like the
MAC address or BSSID?

Thanks...

WiFi signal from Korea is strong enough to reach the Phillipines :-)

No, Windows wireless zero config (or PROSet WiFi software) remembers all
access points that it has connected to and automatically adds them into the
profile.

"Bill Brehm >" <<don't want spam> wrote in message
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> I'm using Windows XP with the Intel PROSet/Wireless.
>
> In a hotel in Korea I logged onto their Wifi. Later when I was in Manila,
> I saw a access point with the same hotel name. There is no such hotel in
> Manila. How did the s/w get confused? What is used to identify an access
> point? The hotel access point had the Network Name 'default'. Is it that
> simple that the one in Manila was also default and therefore my laptop
> thought it was the Korean hotel? Does anything else have to match like the
> MAC address or BSSID?
>
> Thanks...
>

Hi
Look at the Wireless proffered list and get rid of every thing that is Not
relevant any more.
http://www.ezlan.net/wireless/wzc3.jpg
Jack (MVP-Networking).

"Bill Brehm >" <<don't want spam> wrote in message
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> I'm using Windows XP with the Intel PROSet/Wireless.
>
> In a hotel in Korea I logged onto their Wifi. Later when I was in Manila,
> I saw a access point with the same hotel name. There is no such hotel in
> Manila. How did the s/w get confused? What is used to identify an access
> point? The hotel access point had the Network Name 'default'. Is it that
> simple that the one in Manila was also default and therefore my laptop
> thought it was the Korean hotel? Does anything else have to match like the
> MAC address or BSSID?
>
> Thanks...
>

The Korean hotel will be relevant next month when I go back there again. So
I don't want to remove it. My only question is: Why did some Wifi access
point in Manila show up as the hotel in Korea? Is it simply because they
both had the same Network Name 'default'? If so I guess this will happen a
lot to a lot of people.


"Jack (MVP-Networking)." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi
> Look at the Wireless proffered list and get rid of every thing that is Not
> relevant any more.
> http://www.ezlan.net/wireless/wzc3.jpg
> Jack (MVP-Networking).
>
> "Bill Brehm >" <<don't want spam> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> I'm using Windows XP with the Intel PROSet/Wireless.
>>
>> In a hotel in Korea I logged onto their Wifi. Later when I was in Manila,
>> I saw a access point with the same hotel name. There is no such hotel in
>> Manila. How did the s/w get confused? What is used to identify an access
>> point? The hotel access point had the Network Name 'default'. Is it that
>> simple that the one in Manila was also default and therefore my laptop
>> thought it was the Korean hotel? Does anything else have to match like
>> the MAC address or BSSID?
>>
>> Thanks...
>>
>

yup

"Bill Brehm" <don't want spam> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> The Korean hotel will be relevant next month when I go back there again.
> So I don't want to remove it. My only question is: Why did some Wifi
> access point in Manila show up as the hotel in Korea? Is it simply because
> they both had the same Network Name 'default'? If so I guess this will
> happen a lot to a lot of people.
>
>
> "Jack (MVP-Networking)." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Hi
>> Look at the Wireless proffered list and get rid of every thing that is
>> Not relevant any more.
>> http://www.ezlan.net/wireless/wzc3.jpg
>> Jack (MVP-Networking).
>>
>> "Bill Brehm >" <<don't want spam> wrote in message
>> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>> I'm using Windows XP with the Intel PROSet/Wireless.
>>>
>>> In a hotel in Korea I logged onto their Wifi. Later when I was in
>>> Manila, I saw a access point with the same hotel name. There is no such
>>> hotel in Manila. How did the s/w get confused? What is used to identify
>>> an access point? The hotel access point had the Network Name 'default'.
>>> Is it that simple that the one in Manila was also default and therefore
>>> my laptop thought it was the Korean hotel? Does anything else have to
>>> match like the MAC address or BSSID?
>>>
>>> Thanks...
>>>
>>
>
>