wireless picking up 2 wlan and switching between them

[martind1]

ok, sisters apt has a wireless lan. she has something called BOINGO on it fromt he wireless card. she keeps picking up a second wireless signal from a second wlan. THe problem is her connection keeps dropping because of this second wlan and the card trying to switch over(or something).



what can I do to prevent this?

 

[gunrunnerjohn]

Change the channel on her WAP and lock the client to that channel.

 

[Sabreguy]

You should also be able to tell the Lan card to use a preferred network, that way it'll alway log on to the chosen network when its avaliable.

 

[buleyb]

I suppose physically trashing the other person's WLAN isn't an option... 😉

 

[martind1]

these are all good ideas, and i would liek to knwo more.

how do i go about changeing these things? where do i look?

 

[whaleskinrug]

in XP look in connection status >Properties tab> Wireless Networks -- there is a "Preferred Networks" list and you can specify there. Boingo is not necessary for her to connect -- I would personally uninstall it.

 

[loup garou]

Yeah, if she has XP, I'd get rid of Boingo. It causes more problems than it solves.

 

[martind1]

i knida figured i woudl get that response about boingo

 

[martind1]

Ok,

problem is she is running w2k, does these setting still exist or are they an XP only thing?

 

[martind1]

anyone got that info?

 

[InlineFive]

It should be basically the same with a few graphical changes.