laptop keeps connecting to nearby Powerline network?

Mickser_52

Hi,
over the last few days my wife's laptop keeps trying to connect to a Powerline network instead of our own eircom wireless router. The home wifi shows a stronger signal but each time her laptop connects to the powerline network instead and she has to disconnect and reconnect to Eircom. Even though the laptop says it is connected to this network it is not connecting to the internet

From what I have been reading Powerline seems to be a system that allows signals to be sent through the houses wiring. We do not have such a system and I doubt if either of our neighbours would have it installed either but haven't asked yet.

Can anyone suggest a solution to this problem.

T0mmyM

It sounds like the it has somehow been set as your default wireless connection.

What OS is the laptop running?

leeroybrown

At some stage this network was set as having a higher priority by someone using the laptop. If you remove the network from the list of networks the laptop knows about it should be fine.

dolallyoh

leeroybrown wrote: »

At some stage this network was set as having a higher priority by someone using the laptop. If you remove the network from the list of networks the laptop knows about it should be fine.

"powerline" its just the name given by someone to a nearby wireless network. Its a security risk if you allow yourself to connect to it so delete the network from discovered networks.

Mickser_52

Thanks for replies. Laptop OS is Windows XP. I have done the following:

Clicked on view available networks, then on advanced settings removed the powerline network.

When I get a chance , I will restart her computer and see what happens this time. It is very unlikely that anyone would have changed the priority of the neworks.

Voodu Child

Also, make sure you have not ticked the box 'connect to a more preferred network if available'.