Jumping routers

Greetings
I have a Cisco router and my neighbor has a Netgear router. My laptop
connects wirelessly to my router, but when my neighbor turns on his router,
my laptop connects to his router, right in the middle of a download. My
laptop stops working until I click on the bars icon in the system tray
(Windows 7). It shows I'm connected to the neighbor's router with "Limited
Service." I click on my router's SSID and then click on "Connect," and I'm
back in business. Is there a setting that locks the wireless adapter to a
particular signal (my router), and will keep it from jumping to the
neighbor's router across the street?
Thanks,
Mike from Moriches

On 12/31/2011 3:43 PM, Mike from Moriches wrote:
> Greetings
> I have a Cisco router and my neighbor has a Netgear
> router. My laptop connects wirelessly to my router, but
> when my neighbor turns on his router, my laptop connects to
> his router, right in the middle of a download. My laptop
> stops working until I click on the bars icon in the system
> tray (Windows 7). It shows I'm connected to the neighbor's
> router with "Limited Service." I click on my router's SSID
> and then click on "Connect," and I'm back in business. Is
> there a setting that locks the wireless adapter to a
> particular signal (my router), and will keep it from jumping
> to the neighbor's router across the street?
> Thanks,
> Mike from Moriches

it sounds like you have "Connect Automatically" checked for
your neighbors signal. Open the network and sharing item
then the connect to a network and check the properties of
his signal by right clicking it.

On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 16:07:01 -0500, Pen <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>On 12/31/2011 3:43 PM, Mike from Moriches wrote:
>> Greetings
>> I have a Cisco router and my neighbor has a Netgear
>> router. My laptop connects wirelessly to my router, but
>> when my neighbor turns on his router, my laptop connects to
>> his router, right in the middle of a download. My laptop
>> stops working until I click on the bars icon in the system
>> tray (Windows 7). It shows I'm connected to the neighbor's
>> router with "Limited Service." I click on my router's SSID
>> and then click on "Connect," and I'm back in business. Is
>> there a setting that locks the wireless adapter to a
>> particular signal (my router), and will keep it from jumping
>> to the neighbor's router across the street?
>> Thanks,
>> Mike from Moriches

>it sounds like you have "Connect Automatically" checked for
>your neighbors signal. Open the network and sharing item
>then the connect to a network and check the properties of
>his signal by right clicking it.

Agreed. Setting your neighbors SSID to "Connect Manually" will work.
However, the original problem seems to be that both routers have no
encryption set. They may also be operating on the same RF channel. I
suggest that you also try:
1. What channels the router is set to use. My guess is that it's set
to "auto" which is a bad idea. Pick a channel from 1, 6, or 11. Make
sure that it's different from the neighbors channel.
2. Setup and use WPA/WPA2 encryption.
3. Make sure you don't have the SSID of either or both routers set to
something dumb like Linksys, Default, Any, or Belkin.
4. Check if your unspecified model laptop is using a vendor supplied
wireless connection manager instead of the cryptic piece of junk
supplied with Windoze 7. If you're running Intel Proset, Lenovo
Mobile Broadband Connection Manager, Broadcom Control Point, or
whatever Dell, HP, Acer, Asus and Toshiba are supplying this week,
consider yourself fortunate. Check if they have a similar setting to
avoid connecting automatically to anything that's in range.

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