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| Thread ID: 82671 | 2007-09-04 03:21:00 | hard to connect to AP when ESSID hidden | heni72847 (1166) | Press F1 |
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| 587773 | 2007-09-04 03:21:00 | more of an annoyance than a problem this one.. at home my AP doesn't broadcast its ESSID however this somehow makes XP unable to find this AP and connect to it I'm using XP's wireless manager not third party ones and XP is configured with manual settings to know that this AP is there if I run netstumbler it can easily pick up the signal, and its not weak either but XP simply don't want to connect to it it'll rather connect to my neighbors AP since it broadcasts its ESSID sometimes when the AP can't be found, a simple repair of the network can help to reconnect it but sometimes a restart i required, especially when I wake my notebook from standby/hibernate is there a way to tell XP to look for my AP manually? or just get it to connect more easily? |
heni72847 (1166) | ||
| 587774 | 2007-09-04 06:24:00 | So is the "Access Point to be connected automatically when its hidden"? | beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 587775 | 2007-09-04 09:28:00 | the ESSID is hidden, yes but already entered manually into xp's wireless setup and can be connected.. most of the time like right now! but might not do it next time... |
heni72847 (1166) | ||
| 587776 | 2007-09-04 11:26:00 | no but in the manual settings, there is a box that allows that connection to be used even when its not broadcasting. You have to tick that one. | beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 587777 | 2007-09-04 13:08:00 | yes it is set to automatically connect when I'm within range but the thing is it doesn't do this all the time sometimes it works perfectly sometimes it decides not to connect this is the problem/annoyance I have or maybe the box to tick you mention is different from what I'm looking at here please tell me exactly which one you meant thanks |
heni72847 (1166) | ||
| 587778 | 2007-09-04 13:19:00 | Nope, then you have the box I'm talking about. Have you tried manually setting it up again just in case there were issues the 1st time? EDIT: This is the box I'm talking about (I know they are Vista images): www.itc.virginia.edu www.itc.virginia.edu |
beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 587779 | 2007-09-04 20:28:00 | thanks heaps, I think I got this problem solved I looked for the option you mentioned it was different from what I was ticking before but even after following the vista screenshot, I couldn't find it in XP... googled a bit and some on some other forum someone mentioned that to see that option in XP SP2 you need KB893357 and KB917021 updates weird enough I was missing one of them..even though my windows updates runs automatically?! then finally I found the option, different place to vista though but already ticked by default after updating, so now everything seems to work nicely ..sigh..maybe other people don't have this problem because their XP updated correctly |
heni72847 (1166) | ||
| 587780 | 2007-09-05 09:38:00 | Good to see you got it sorted:thumbs: | beeswax34 (63) | ||
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