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How to tell Windows 8 to only connect to network drives on certain networks?
I have a home server with some files on that I connect to via my wireless LAN at home. The server is only available at that specific network, and not via internet.
It seems that every time I open an ...
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Bridging connections between two wireless notebooks
My apartment has a very weak public WiFi signal. my vista notebook is not connecting to this public WiFi, it says signal is weak, while my win7 notebook does connect and is working OK, so i wanted to ...
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Save Credentials for wireless network Greyed out
When I try to managing a wireless network to save my credentials, that option is greyed out. I thought I might need administrator permissions but I don't see any option to do so. I know from other ...
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Windows 7 losing connection to network but not internet
My windows 7 will lose connection to my work network every 4 - 6 seconds (it varies). It happens whether I'm connected through Ethernet or wireless. The weird thing is that it does stay connected to ...
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Why is my internet faster than WLAN?
Why is my internet connection (with a wireless router) faster than my wireless LAN connection?
The former is normally ~2 MB/s (I get ~3 MB/s sometimes too), but the latter just doesn't go above a few ...
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My windows 7 all of a sudden can not detect MY wifi, but can detect others
Good afternoon, I have a Windows 7 laptop hooked up, it has detected my wifi fine, and all of a sudden, after doing a reset on my Xfinity router, the laptop stopped detecting my wifi.
My other ...
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Windows 7 can't see Ubuntu shared folders and I can't find credentials for Ubuntu file on Windows 7
I have 3 PC's. On two of them I'm running Windows 7 professional and one Linux Ubuntu as media storage server. With desktop machine I have problem deleting credentials of Ubuntu server and they are ...
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Wireless router won't let a specific computer reconnect unless its power cycled
I provide tech support for an elderly gentleman who is very tech illiterate. I set him up with a laptop connected to his TV, and literally the only thing he does with it is check email from the family ...
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Windows 7: Event Viewer Issue (log on codes and workstation name query)
I am using a laptop for home use. I am not connected to a server or anything, just the home wifi.
Today I was looking in the event viewer and I saw quite a lot of log ons with numbers, 2,3,5 or 7. ...
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Windows laptop losing connection to Airport Express
I have a Windows 7 laptop connecting through wifi to an Airport Extreme router at work. When I leave work in the evening with my hibernating laptop and come back the following morning, it's unable to ...
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Installing some software by brodcasting in a network on all computers ?
Need HTcondor to be installed on all computers in network Which is our own campus network for throughput computing, we need maximum nodes so we can do it in a better way. Mentioned network have many ...
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LAN in WiFi network and how to get IP address of all the connecting devices
I have two computers at my home and we use WiFi, how to LAN my both the computers? Is it required any special particular device or I need to configure it.
Secondly, how can I get the IP address of ...
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How does windows prioritize what AP to connect to if multiple are available for the same SSID?
I'm wondering, I administrate a setup where we have multiple AP's feeding the same SSID on 2.4ghz and 5ghz frequencies.
Without access to anything but the dBm how could I determine what frequency / ...
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Laptop doesn't detect the wireless connection
There are 2 access points in the area. 2 laptops -one of them has Windows 7 and the other has Windows 8- detect only one of them which is farther. Other computers in the area can detect and connect ...
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Cannot see wireless adapter in my windows 7 PC
I am stuck here for 4 days now. I was cleaning my PC where I uninstalled some of the software I thought were never used. I even stopped some of the default start applications during the booting of ...
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Is there a way to limit bandwidth usage on Windows 7?
Often, I tether my Android smartphone to my Windows 7 PC, while travelling. This office PC has many background data-consuming applications (like software update, virus definition downloads, large ...
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Wired "Not Connected" icon in system tray instead of Wireless "Connected"
I've been getting this weird problem as of late:
It seems as if I'm not connected to any network - be it wired or wireless, even though I am connected via wireless ("bamba" has internet access), and ...
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Why do I lose data speed on my desktop (WLAN) without loosing signal?
I am running Windows 7 SP1 and I’ve just bought a Wi-Fi card (plugged in pci on my motherboard) for my desktop. My wireless adapter is a 300Mbps Wireless N PCI Adapter
TL-WN851ND (US TP-Link page in ...
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Share network from windows 8.1 to windows 8.1
I'm trying to share network via "Connectify" from Windows 8.1 notebook to another Windows 8.1 notebook. And the problem is that connection is limited. Order isn't matter.
But third notebook with ...
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How to make a full windows 7 hardrive shared on a home network for macs?
This my setup:
1 PC - with a 1 TB Hardrive called E:/ (Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit)
1 Mac Apple Mac Book Pro (Mac OSX Yosemite)
2 Windows Laptop (Both with Windows 7 Pro 64bit)
1 Router
I want to make ...
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Windows 7 selective internet access
I have a windows 7 pc thats connected to a wireless network. Windows says 'no internet access' yet the web browser works normally. However, some other apps arent getting network access. Any idea what ...
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Wifi login detection for Windows
OSX detects when login is required after you join public wifi and pops up a small window that's supposed to open the provider's login page (although this doesn't always work properly in my experience)....
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Windows 7 Not connecting to WiFi
I have installed Windows 7 enterprise edition on my laptop Dell N4050 and then installed driver Realtek Driver R307625 for connecting to Wifi but it is not connecting to wifi and it says "No ...
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what cryption does windows(vista/7/8) use to store wi-fi passwords?
That is located at c:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Wlansvc\Profiles\Interfaces
here is one example:
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WLAN USB works with TKIP but not AES?
Alright, so I have a Realtek RTL8188cu Wireless Lan 802.11n USB2.0 network adapter, and my router is a Model:SMCD3GNV with it's mode set to 802.11 b/g/n, and it's security type is WPAWPA2-PSK (TKIP/...
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WIndows 7 Configure ICS using two NICs
OK here is the problem.
I use my primary computer to connect to the internet using a SureCom NIC.
i also have a secondary NIC which i connect to a wireless router and share the internet with other ...
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Setting up SoftAP on Windows 7 problem
I'm setting it like this:
netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=MyNet75 key=mysuperkey
keyUsage=persistent
and getting message that all is ok:
The hosted network mode has been set to ...
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Airplane mode and wifi runs simuntaneously in windows 8.1
I am using windows 8.1 pro ver: 6.3.9600 build 9600
in my laptop when i turn on airplane mode at the same time the wifi can also be turn on or turn off. generaly it should not be happen and all ...
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