Give your WIFI router a unique name

Give your WIFI a unique name.

Can you guess which network is mine?

Simple advice – Give your WIFI router a unique name.

Why?

Over the holidays I ran into a unique situation. My parents router has the same name as my router. Their WIFI has no security, my router has WPA2. Each device had some difficulty with the duplicate name.

My wife’s Vista laptop gave us the most trouble, with difficulty connecting at my parents and connecting after we got back home. (Hopefully we will upgrade this laptop to Win7 in 2012)

My Mac Air decided that my home network was no longer a preferred network, so I had to go into Network Preferences and delete and re-create the WIFI connection.

My iPhone and iPad did not automatically re-connect to our home WIFI when we returned. Once again I had to go clean up my WIFI settings.

I can’t remember if my Dell laptop running Win7-64 gave me any trouble, but I did remove my parents WIFI network from the list when I returned. In the list it just added a 2 to the end.

One thing about cleaning up WIFI settings, it makes you realize how much you have travelled over the years.

- mike

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