How do I get my computer to stop automatically connecting with a wireless network that isn’t mine?
I have a linksys router that I use that works great but every time I turn on my computer it always connects to some other nearby network called "netgear" and I don’t want to be connected to netgear. I want to be connected to linksys.
In summary: What do I do to get my computer stop making netgear the default wireless network and to start getting linksys as my default wireless network?
I have a linksys router that I use that works great but every time I turn on my computer it always connects to some other nearby network called "netgear" and I don’t want to be connected to netgear. I want to be connected to linksys.
But DONT GET ME WRONG- I DO know how to disconnect from netgear and reconnect to linksys. I just don’t know how to make my computer to automatically connect to linksys and that is my main goal and reason for asking this question.
In summary: What do I do to get my computer to stop making netgear the default wireless network and to start getting linksys as my default wireless network?
If you use the windows wireless utility to configure your wireless, go to start-control panel-network connections-right click on wireless connections and choose properties-wireless networks tab-now you should see all your wireless networks that you have added along the way and you can add/remove them as needed.
If you used some other wireless configuration tool (Linksys, Netgear, etc…) then you need to use their wireless configuration program to add/remove the wireless profiles.
Hope that helps!
If you use the windows wireless utility to configure your wireless, go to start-control panel-network connections-right click on wireless connections and choose properties-wireless networks tab-now you should see all your wireless networks that you have added along the way and you can add/remove them as needed.
If you used some other wireless configuration tool (Linksys, Netgear, etc…) then you need to use their wireless configuration program to add/remove the wireless profiles.
Hope that helps!
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Right click on the wireless network icon in your task bar and select "view available wireless networks". On the left side of that window, you should see an option to change the order of preferred networks. Click on that and you will open up another window letting you put the networks in order of which one you want your computer to connect to first. Put yours at the top but also make sure it is actually highlighted. Mine actually lists mine second but it is selected as my first option. Click "ok" when you are done and you should be permanently set to connect to your network first.
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The first 2 answer are missing one more step/partially correct.
Chances are that you said "Yes" to connect to "netgear" in the past. So in the list of preferred networks, delete it.
You can do this to any other network you don’t recognize in that list – just make sure that you don’t actually use it before deleting it. But even if you did accidentally delete one, all that means is that you’ll have to add it in again – it not disastrous so to speak.
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Extensive experience, lost hair, and a "No, I won’t fix your computer shirt."
If you’re using Windows to configure your Wifi, go to Control Panel> Wireless Network Connections> Wireless Networks tab; here you’ll need to identify all wifi networks your system ’sees’, then for your own network, highlight it, then ‘move up’ to the top of the list: then, go to ‘Advanced’ button, tick ‘access points only’ and uncheck ‘Automatically connect to non-preferred networks’>close> OK
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