"Barry" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> My wife has a laptop which four times out of five connects wirelessly to
> the our router. Every now and then it fails to connect fully i.e. it
> detects a network but does not connect. I have just realised what is
> happening; it is finding someone elses network which, because it is
> secure, cannot connect.
> How can I force it to pick up our router, I know I can search for
> networks, select and connect but I would like it to default to the right
> one. Short of breaking in next door and smashing his router what can I do?
What's the name of your network? Is it a default name (eg the name of the
router's manufacturer - Netgear, Belkin, DLINK etc)? If so, and if your
neightbour's is the same name, the PC cannot distinguish between the two and
will (try to) connect to whichever is the stronger signal.
If this is the case, change the name of your network to something unique and
delete the original name from the list of networks that the PC will try to
connect to: if a name is not in the list the PC will not attempt to connect
to it.
If your network name *is* unique, then it's back to the drawing board...
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