Force to Only Connect to One Network Only?

Hi folks,

I've kinda driven myself up the wall trying to figure this out:

There are several wireless networks in range of my laptop. There's
the one in my house (Let's call it "Router A"), and a few others that
have a weak signal but are in range (Let's call any one of them
"Router B"). My laptop will, at odd times and sometimes even during a
windows session, disconnect from Router A, and automagically re-
connect itself to Router B, without me even realizing it's happening
until after the fact. Once I figure out that it's switched itself, I
can easily go into "Wireless Networkiing Connection Status," click
"View Wireless Networks," and reconnect to Router A.

Is there a way to force the computer to only ever attach to Router A,
and never attempt to attach to another router?

Thanks a bunch in advance for helping,
-HaloFX

 

Hi
Some time it is unavoidable, especially if your signal is Not very strong
and someone in the neighborhood has a vey strong signal.
First make sure that you are using your WPA an above encryption.
Look at the Wireless Configuration menu and make sure that your Wireless
Network is the only one in the Preferred networks (remove every thing else,
if any).
Then look at the advance menu and make sure that Automatically connect to
none preferred networks is Unchecked.
http://www.ezlan.net/wireless/wzc3.jpg
Jack (MVP-Networking).

 

1) Be sure that Router A is broadcasting the SSID.
2) Setup your WiFi client, with "Automatically connect to non-preferred
networks" disabled.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/11/make-your-wireless-computer-connect.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/11/make-your-wireless-computer-connect.html

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