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2 wireless networks - not simultaneously

  • 18-11-2009 9:40pm
    #1
    ecaf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 349 ✭✭


    I want to be able to connect to 2 different wireless networks, in different locations, at different times. But I don't want to have to keep inputting the WEP key each time I change over.
    Is this possible in windows XP? I presume it is but how do you do it? I was searching but all the results are for simultaneously connecting to two networks with 2 wireless cards. I just want to connect to one at a time, but not have to reinput the wep key.

    Thanks!


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  • #2
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Then you just save the connection information in the exact same way you have already saved the information for the first connection. This is a non-thought in Vista afaik, and should be the same deal in XP.

    Your wireless just picks up on either, is programmed to connect to it. Thats it. My laptop (Vista) Does this all the time. At home it automatically connects to the home network. or the work network. Or my brother's network. It depends entirely on where I am. at one point I had a dozen connections saved to my laptop.

    Connecting to two separate networks at the same time is a completely separate issue as you know. And for me has never come up.


  • #3
    ecaf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 349 ✭✭ecaf


    I think I have some sort of problem with mine, I'll have to try at work again and see. I have to have a fixed IP address at work, so I don't know if this has something to do with it.
    It used to work the way you say (on XP), but then I got a new laptop with vista, and had to install XP instead because of other software that I needed to install that wern't compatible with vista, I think something has been set up differently.

    I don't get that box that you can view the networks available in, I have seen it before but I don't know where to look for it now?


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