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I use a secured wireless network at home which my children access from
machines using either Vista or XP. I restrict access to the internet by
running the router on a timer which powers off at bedtime.
Unfortunately, one of my neighbours is running an unsecured network with an
SSID of "belkin54g". This allows the older children to manually connect to
this network when mine powers down which defeats the object of my limiting
their access at betime. In an ideal world they would not do this. In reality
I am fed up having to police their doing so.
I have removed this network from the preferred network list on all machines,
but it reappears each time the machines are restarted.
Can anyone tell me how I can definitively stop both an XP and Vista machine
from either a) seeing the network on the list of available networks, or b)
disable their ability to connect to this network even though it may appear as
an available network.
I am seeking a solution that will be a one time fix and not require the type
of monitoring that I am currently having to undertake to monitor their use of
the internet.
Thank you in advance for any help that you are able to provide.
machines using either Vista or XP. I restrict access to the internet by
running the router on a timer which powers off at bedtime.
Unfortunately, one of my neighbours is running an unsecured network with an
SSID of "belkin54g". This allows the older children to manually connect to
this network when mine powers down which defeats the object of my limiting
their access at betime. In an ideal world they would not do this. In reality
I am fed up having to police their doing so.
I have removed this network from the preferred network list on all machines,
but it reappears each time the machines are restarted.
Can anyone tell me how I can definitively stop both an XP and Vista machine
from either a) seeing the network on the list of available networks, or b)
disable their ability to connect to this network even though it may appear as
an available network.
I am seeking a solution that will be a one time fix and not require the type
of monitoring that I am currently having to undertake to monitor their use of
the internet.
Thank you in advance for any help that you are able to provide.
