Hide an available network?
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Hide an available network?
I have my comp and Hubby's laptop wirelessly networked (ad hoc). Trouble is when he sits in the other room where he prefers to work he keeps picking up our next door neighbours macintosh network. It cant be connected to but the computer always tries it before our network.
Is there anyway to stop the laptop seeing the other network, other than asking my neighbour to hide it somehow?
On the other side of the problem, he cant gain internet access through my comp. Our ISP does allow it.
Heres what we have.
Mine Xp home SP1, Belkin 802.11g Wireless PCI Card, netcomm NB1300 ethernet adsl modem/router.
His laptop is Xp Pro SP1, Intel Pro wireless Lan 3B mini PCI adapter, mac bridge miniport.
Is it possibly my modem/router that is stopping it because the 2 comps can see and transfer fine.
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Tassie Devil,
Have you had a look on the Belkin web site? I know someone who had a similar issue and I think they got a download from the Belkin site to encrypt their communications. Once you have a channel between your 2 computers that is encrypted with a key that your neighbour doesn't have, it ought to block outside communications.
If it still tries to communicate with your neighbour's network after looking at that, then try changing your IP address range and/or network mask.
As for the second question, I'm not really sure but, from personal experience of home LAN issues, I'd try disabling any firewall software (on either end) for a minute or two (whilst being disconnected from the Internet of course) and see whether that improves things.
Let us know how you get on 
