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Category: Wireless network

  • Delete Wireless Network Profile – Windows 7 Tips



    INFORMATION:



    This article will show you how to delete wireless network profiles on your Windows 7 computer




    1) Go to Start and click on Control Panel.
    2) Proceed to click View network status and tasks in Control Panel window.


    3) Network and Sharing Center window will appear, proceed to click Manage wireless networks on left panel.

    4) Manage Wireless Networks window will appear, and here you can see all available wireless network connection profiles. Select the profile you don’t use anymore, click on Remove to delete the selected profile. That’s it!
    Note: Some explanation on profile icons! 2 big computers icon means infrastructure or access point network (you will connect to the wireless network via access point or wireless router). That 3 connected mini computers icon means ad hoc wireless network (the computers will connect to each others directly and wirelessly).
    Note: You can click Add to add new wireless network profile.
    Note: Please also note that the network profile that located at higher position will have higher priority. As an example, home-network will be connected instead of nicole-network if both networks are in connecting range due to higher priority on home-network profile. You can click on Move up/Move down to change the priority.

    5) If you want to view and change the wireless network profile setting, just double click on the profile. The profile setting window will appear, and you can view/make change by checking on Connection and ` tabs.


  • Connect to Wireless Network – Windows 7 Tips



    INFORMATION:

    This article will show you how to connect your Windows & machine to wireless network


     
    Before we start, ensure that WLAN AutoConfig Service is started, so that we can use the Windows 7 build-in wireless network connection tool to connect to wireless network.


    1) Ok, let’s start, just notice the icon that looks like ladder on you right hand corner taskbar, it’s network icon. If it’s attached with a sun, usually means it detects wireless networks.
    2) Just click on that network icon, it will show all detected wireless networks with signal strength, the more green bars the stronger wireless signal. The details of detected wireless network (SSID, signal strength, security type, radio type) will be shown if you move over mouse cursor for 1 second on the selected network.
    Note: If the detected wireless network is hidden network (SSID broadcast is disabled), it will be shown as Other Network.
    Note: If there is orange bubble and exclamation mark on wireless network symbol, that is open or unsecured wireless network without any wireless encryption.
    Note: Feel free to press refresh button to re-detect wireless network.

    Note: Please note that the detected network list will be appeared too if you click on Connect to a network in Network and sharing Center.

    3) Click on the wireless network you wish to connect to, it will be expanded as shown below. Check Connect automatically option if you want this network to be connected automatically next time. Proceed to click Connect.

    4) If the wireless network is secured network with wireless encryption, the following window will appear, you need to key in wireless encryption key, after that click OK.
    Note: If the wireless network is unsecured network, your computer will be connected to wireless network immediately.
    Note: If the wireless network you try to connect is Other network (hidden network – SSID broadcast is disabled), you are requested to key in SSID info too before connecting to wireless network.

    5) Finally, you will see the following white wireless network icon once it’s connected to wireless network. You can now proceed to access Internet or other computers!

    Note:If you right click the connected wireless network and click Properties, you will be able to see the connection setting of this network and you can make further configuration.


  • Checking Network or Wireless Adapter Driver Status in Windows 7

    INFORMATION:
    This article will show you how to check network or wireless Adapter Driver Status in Windows 7

    HERE’S HOW:

    1) Go to Start and click on Control Panel.


    2) Control Panel window will appear, click Hardware and Sound.


    Note: If you view Control Panel by Large Icons or Small Icons, you can just double click the Device Manager.

    3) Click on Device Manager in Hardware and Sound window.

    4) The Device Manager will appear, then locate and expand Network adapters and right click the network or wireless adapter you want to check, finally click on Properties.

    5) The network or wireless adapter properties window will appear, your driver works well if it shows This device is working properly under General tab. You can also manually configure network adapter’s driver parameters under Advanced tab.

    Note: If your device does not work well, click on Driver tab to check driver details, update driver, rollback driver, disable driver or uninstall driver.

  • Connect Two Computers Wirelessly in Windows 7



    INFORMATION:

    In order to connect two computers, now you need to configure ad hoc wireless setting on Windows 7 computer A, so that computer B can connect to it wirelessly, after that you can proceed to share file or printer.






    HERES HOW:

    On Windows 7 Computer A:

    1) Go to Start and click on Control Panel.
    2) Proceed to click View network status and tasks in Control Panel window.

    3) Network and Sharing Center window will appear, proceed to click on Set up a new connection or network.

    4) Set Up a Connection or Network window will appear, select Set up a wireless ad hoc (computer-to-computer) network option and click Next.

    5) You will see some explanation on this wireless ad hoc network. Please note that both computers must be within 30 feet of each other in order to connect successfully! Click Next.

    6) Here you need to fill up the details of this ad hoc network. Name your network, select security type and set security key if needed. Click Save this network option too, so that can manage it later. Click Next.
    Note: Although you can choose No authentication (open), WEP and WPA2-Personal as security type, but I advise you to use WPA2-Personal as this is the most secure security type.

    7) A window will be shown to tell you that the ad hoc wireless network is in the creation process. Finally this window will show you the created ad hoc wireless network with name and security key info, and this info is needed for other computers to connect to this ad hoc network.

    Note: You can always go back to Network and Sharing Center window, and click on manage wireless networks option to further manage this ad hoc wireless network.

    8) Let’s move to computer B, search for available ad hoc wireless network and connect to it.

    9) Once the connection is established, you are prompted to select network location type and/or homegroup on computer A. I will usually select Home network as network location type as the other connected computer is trusted computer. It’s ok if you do not want to create homegroup.
    At this point, you should be able to connect two computers and ping the other connected computer, finally proceed to share files if you like.

  • User Specific Wireless Network

    How to Enable User-Specific Wireless Networks in Windows 7?
    Wireless network settings in Windows 7 are global across all users, but there’s a little-known option that lets you switch them to per-user, so each user has access to only the networks they are allowed to connect to. Here’s how it all works.
    How is this useful? Maybe you want to prevent a particular user from accessing the internet—if you don’t give them the wireless password, they won’t be able to get online. This could be very useful if you’ve got mini-people playing games on the family PC, but you don’t want them getting online.
    Setting Up Per-User Wireless Networks
    The first thing you’ll need to do is head to Network and Sharing Center, which can be access through the tray icon in the screen shot above. Once you’re there, click on Manage Wireless Networks.
    Once there, click on the Profile types button.
    And now you can choose the “Use all-user and per-user profiles” option.
    Note: the warning message indicates that if you use the Switch Users function to keep both users logged in at the same time, it’s going to possibly cut off the other user. Since that’s what we wanted in the first place, just click the Save button.
    At this point, your system can now use per-user profiles—but any current profiles are still set to all-user. Keep reading.
    Creating a User-Specific Wireless Network Connection
    The simplest way to either create a new user-specific wireless connection would be to just connect to a network—the default is per user now. If you want to convert the current one, you’ll need to first remove it. Just select it in the list on the Manage Wireless Networks screen, and then click the Remove button.
    Now you can use the system tray wireless icon to pick a network, connect to it, and then enter the password.
    If you right-click on the entry in the list and choose Properties, you’ll see that the “Network availability” option is now set to “Me only”. Success!
    The same thing will happen for any network you connect to.