Disconnecting From Neighbors Wireless

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Okay, this is opposite from those who try to piggy-back on a
neighbor's wireless. I want to -stop- connecting to a neighbor. We
have a wireless setup and just a couple days ago a neighbor
apparently installed one. Zone Alarm popped up and told me about it.
All was fine until I tried to download headers in my Agent newsreader
and it told me I was connected on two computers. Low and behold my
laptop had decided to switch to the neighbors wireless connection.
How can I tell my laptop to only connect to our wireless router and
stop latching onto the neighbor? The SSID's are different - I named
ours Marconi (Cute huh?) and theirs is called "Default" (Yeah, they
have not secured it). At the moment I just use MAC addressing to
keep out casual snoopers and do not want to switch to WEP if it can
be helped. Any settings I can do to make my wandering laptop stay
home?

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Best thing to do is go tell him about his lack
of security. Once his WEP, MAC filtering et. al. is up and
running, you won't connect to it automatically
anymore, although you'll still "see"it.

"Falcon" <Falcon23587@verizzon.net> wrote in message
news:m1pch1titkkl7h2v9g85algrd3v48eirrn@4ax.com...
> Okay, this is opposite from those who try to piggy-back on a
> neighbor's wireless. I want to -stop- connecting to a neighbor. We
> have a wireless setup and just a couple days ago a neighbor
> apparently installed one. Zone Alarm popped up and told me about it.
> All was fine until I tried to download headers in my Agent newsreader
> and it told me I was connected on two computers. Low and behold my
> laptop had decided to switch to the neighbors wireless connection.
> How can I tell my laptop to only connect to our wireless router and
> stop latching onto the neighbor? The SSID's are different - I named
> ours Marconi (Cute huh?) and theirs is called "Default" (Yeah, they
> have not secured it). At the moment I just use MAC addressing to
> keep out casual snoopers and do not want to switch to WEP if it can
> be helped. Any settings I can do to make my wandering laptop stay
> home?
>
> --
> Ciao,
> Falcon

 

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Open the properties of your wireless card by clicking on the icon down there
in the task bar. You'll have to look for the options to configure
connections. You can choose to connect any signal your card finds in there.

"Falcon" <Falcon23587@verizzon.net> wrote in message
news:m1pch1titkkl7h2v9g85algrd3v48eirrn@4ax.com...
> Okay, this is opposite from those who try to piggy-back on a
> neighbor's wireless. I want to -stop- connecting to a neighbor. We
> have a wireless setup and just a couple days ago a neighbor
> apparently installed one. Zone Alarm popped up and told me about it.
> All was fine until I tried to download headers in my Agent newsreader
> and it told me I was connected on two computers. Low and behold my
> laptop had decided to switch to the neighbors wireless connection.
> How can I tell my laptop to only connect to our wireless router and
> stop latching onto the neighbor? The SSID's are different - I named
> ours Marconi (Cute huh?) and theirs is called "Default" (Yeah, they
> have not secured it). At the moment I just use MAC addressing to
> keep out casual snoopers and do not want to switch to WEP if it can
> be helped. Any settings I can do to make my wandering laptop stay
> home?
>
> --
> Ciao,
> Falcon

 

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If you have the connection icon in the system tray, right click it and select Status, then click Properties. Go to the Wireless Networks tab. In the Preferred networks list, locate your neighbor's network, highlight it and select Remove. Next click the Advanced button and make sure that Automatically connect to non-preferred networks is unchecked.

And last, but not least, tell your family that even if it shows up in the list of available wireless networks, not to connect to it. Otherwise, it will wind up in the list of preferred networks again.

And a final note, you should be using some type of encryption on your wireless connection. WEP is better than nothing, but if your wireless hardware supports it, turn on WPA. Encryption not only prevents people from connecting your network, but gives more security for the data you transmit.

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"Falcon" <Falcon23587@verizzon.net> wrote in message news:m1pch1titkkl7h2v9g85algrd3v48eirrn@4ax.com...
> Okay, this is opposite from those who try to piggy-back on a
> neighbor's wireless. I want to -stop- connecting to a neighbor. We
> have a wireless setup and just a couple days ago a neighbor
> apparently installed one. Zone Alarm popped up and told me about it.
> All was fine until I tried to download headers in my Agent newsreader
> and it told me I was connected on two computers. Low and behold my
> laptop had decided to switch to the neighbors wireless connection.
> How can I tell my laptop to only connect to our wireless router and
> stop latching onto the neighbor? The SSID's are different - I named
> ours Marconi (Cute huh?) and theirs is called "Default" (Yeah, they
> have not secured it). At the moment I just use MAC addressing to
> keep out casual snoopers and do not want to switch to WEP if it can
> be helped. Any settings I can do to make my wandering laptop stay
> home?
>
> --
> Ciao,
> Falcon

 

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On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 22:42:00 -0400, "Doug Knox MS-MVP"
<dknox@mvps.org> wrote:

>If you have the connection icon in the system tray, right click it and select Status, then click Properties. Go to the Wireless Networks tab. In the Preferred networks list, locate your neighbor's network, highlight it and select Remove. Next click the Advanced button and make sure that Automatically connect to non-preferred networks is unchecked.

Okay, done, that seems to have fixed it.

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On Wednesday 31 August 2005 07:17 pm, Falcon had this to say in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

> Okay, this is opposite from those who try to piggy-back on a
> neighbor's wireless. I want to -stop- connecting to a neighbor. We
> have a wireless setup and just a couple days ago a neighbor
> apparently installed one. Zone Alarm popped up and told me about it.
> All was fine until I tried to download headers in my Agent newsreader
> and it told me I was connected on two computers. Low and behold my
> laptop had decided to switch to the neighbors wireless connection.
> How can I tell my laptop to only connect to our wireless router and
> stop latching onto the neighbor? The SSID's are different - I named
> ours Marconi (Cute huh?) and theirs is called "Default" (Yeah, they
> have not secured it). At the moment I just use MAC addressing to
> keep out casual snoopers and do not want to switch to WEP if it can
> be helped. Any settings I can do to make my wandering laptop stay
> home?
>
Set your AP and your wireless NIC to use a particular frequency that isn't
being used by your neighbour's AP. You have a choice between 2 to 11.


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On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 03:16:03 GMT, -rwxrw-r-- <nostop@stopspam.com>
wrote:

>On Wednesday 31 August 2005 07:17 pm, Falcon had this to say in
>microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:
>
>> Okay, this is opposite from those who try to piggy-back on a
>> neighbor's wireless. I want to -stop- connecting to a neighbor. We
>> have a wireless setup and just a couple days ago a neighbor
>> apparently installed one. Zone Alarm popped up and told me about it.
>> All was fine until I tried to download headers in my Agent newsreader
>> and it told me I was connected on two computers. Low and behold my
>> laptop had decided to switch to the neighbors wireless connection.
>> How can I tell my laptop to only connect to our wireless router and
>> stop latching onto the neighbor? The SSID's are different - I named
>> ours Marconi (Cute huh?) and theirs is called "Default" (Yeah, they
>> have not secured it). At the moment I just use MAC addressing to
>> keep out casual snoopers and do not want to switch to WEP if it can
>> be helped. Any settings I can do to make my wandering laptop stay
>> home?
>>
>Set your AP and your wireless NIC to use a particular frequency that isn't
>being used by your neighbour's AP. You have a choice between 2 to 11.

How do I do that? We use 11, neighbor uses 6.

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On Wednesday 31 August 2005 08:55 pm, Falcon had this to say in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

> On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 03:16:03 GMT, -rwxrw-r-- <nostop@stopspam.com>
> wrote:
>
>>On Wednesday 31 August 2005 07:17 pm, Falcon had this to say in
>>microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:
>>
>>> Okay, this is opposite from those who try to piggy-back on a
>>> neighbor's wireless. I want to -stop- connecting to a neighbor. We
>>> have a wireless setup and just a couple days ago a neighbor
>>> apparently installed one. Zone Alarm popped up and told me about it.
>>> All was fine until I tried to download headers in my Agent newsreader
>>> and it told me I was connected on two computers. Low and behold my
>>> laptop had decided to switch to the neighbors wireless connection.
>>> How can I tell my laptop to only connect to our wireless router and
>>> stop latching onto the neighbor? The SSID's are different - I named
>>> ours Marconi (Cute huh?) and theirs is called "Default" (Yeah, they
>>> have not secured it). At the moment I just use MAC addressing to
>>> keep out casual snoopers and do not want to switch to WEP if it can
>>> be helped. Any settings I can do to make my wandering laptop stay
>>> home?
>>>
>>Set your AP and your wireless NIC to use a particular frequency that isn't
>>being used by your neighbour's AP. You have a choice between 2 to 11.
>
> How do I do that? We use 11, neighbor uses 6.
>
Read the documentation/manual that came with your wireless NIC. Not knowing
the specifics of every particular wireless NIC, I can't give you
instructions. In some cases you should be able to set the frequency to a
particular number instead of "auto".


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In article <m1pch1titkkl7h2v9g85algrd3v48eirrn@4ax.com>, Falcon23587
@verizzon.net says...
> Okay, this is opposite from those who try to piggy-back on a
> neighbor's wireless. I want to -stop- connecting to a neighbor. We
> have a wireless setup and just a couple days ago a neighbor
> apparently installed one. Zone Alarm popped up and told me about it.
> All was fine until I tried to download headers in my Agent newsreader
> and it told me I was connected on two computers. Low and behold my
> laptop had decided to switch to the neighbors wireless connection.
> How can I tell my laptop to only connect to our wireless router and
> stop latching onto the neighbor? The SSID's are different - I named
> ours Marconi (Cute huh?) and theirs is called "Default" (Yeah, they
> have not secured it). At the moment I just use MAC addressing to
> keep out casual snoopers and do not want to switch to WEP if it can
> be helped. Any settings I can do to make my wandering laptop stay
> home?

You should be able to set the default on your wireless connection to NOT
connect to unsecured networks. My wireless on my laptop is setup to only
connect to the ones I've configured with WEP or WPA.

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