PLEASE help this newbie connect!

HP notebook with P3 as desktop replacement
Windows XP Home
Orinoco Silver PCMCIA card
Netgear wireless router

In this office building there are several wireless networks.
When I boot my notebook in the morning, sometimes it sees our
Netgear wireless router, sometimes it sees others. It's
confused, I'm more so.

I go to the Wireless Network Connection Properties menu, and
under Preferred networks ONLY ours appears. However, under
Available networks there's everything within range. In
Available, I click on ours, then Configure, and it appears to be
okay --- but the unit continues to try to hookup with other
networks, ignoring our wireless router.

I'd like to tell this system to look ONLY at our own network. Is
there a way?

Thanks, gurus!

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> HP notebook with P3 as desktop replacement
> Windows XP Home
> Orinoco Silver PCMCIA card
> Netgear wireless router
>
> In this office building there are several wireless networks.
> When I boot my notebook in the morning, sometimes it sees our
> Netgear wireless router, sometimes it sees others. It's
> confused, I'm more so.
>
> I go to the Wireless Network Connection Properties menu, and
> under Preferred networks ONLY ours appears. However, under
> Available networks there's everything within range. In
> Available, I click on ours, then Configure, and it appears to be
> okay --- but the unit continues to try to hookup with other
> networks, ignoring our wireless router.
>
> I'd like to tell this system to look ONLY at our own network. Is
> there a way?
>
> Thanks, gurus!
Not sure this will work, but should.

Leave only your network in the 'Preferred networks' box. Delete all others.

Click the 'Advanced' button.
Uncheck the 'Automatically connect to non-preferred networks' checkbox.

> Not sure this will work, but should.
>
> Leave only your network in the 'Preferred networks' box. Delete all others.
>
> Click the 'Advanced' button.
> Uncheck the 'Automatically connect to non-preferred networks' checkbox.


In Advanced, there's no option like that!

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
:Windows XP Home

There's your problem.

:I go to the Wireless Network Connection Properties menu, and
:under Preferred networks ONLY ours appears. However, under
:Available networks there's everything within range. In
:Available, I click on ours, then Configure, and it appears to be
kay --- but the unit continues to try to hookup with other
:networks, ignoring our wireless router.

:I'd like to tell this system to look ONLY at our own network. Is
:there a way?

Windows XP's built in wireless management tools always want to
connect to the strongest signal, even if it is from a different
network.

I don't know what the repair is. Try searching the archives of
this newsgroup via groups.google.com using "Windows XP" as a keyword
to see how others have dealt with the situation.
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(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
>>Not sure this will work, but should.
>>
>>Leave only your network in the 'Preferred networks' box. Delete all others.
>>
>>Click the 'Advanced' button.
>>Uncheck the 'Automatically connect to non-preferred networks' checkbox.
>
>
>
> In Advanced, there's no option like that!
We may not be talking about the same configuration screen. The screen I
am referring to (and I am assuming the windows in managing your
connections, rather than the wireless card's software) is:

Start|Connect to|Show all connections
Right click on your wireless connection and choose Properties.
Click on the Wireless Networks tab.
The 'Advanced' button on that screen is the one I was referring to.

Have you assigned a SSID to your Preferred Network router and the same SSID
to your card? Also see if changing the operating channels might help.

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> HP notebook with P3 as desktop replacement
> Windows XP Home
> Orinoco Silver PCMCIA card
> Netgear wireless router
>
> In this office building there are several wireless networks.
> When I boot my notebook in the morning, sometimes it sees our
> Netgear wireless router, sometimes it sees others. It's
> confused, I'm more so.
>
> I go to the Wireless Network Connection Properties menu, and
> under Preferred networks ONLY ours appears. However, under
> Available networks there's everything within range. In
> Available, I click on ours, then Configure, and it appears to be
> okay --- but the unit continues to try to hookup with other
> networks, ignoring our wireless router.
>
> I'd like to tell this system to look ONLY at our own network. Is
> there a way?
>
> Thanks, gurus!