Choosing the default wireless network
On a Mac running Tiger (OS X 10.4, not sure if this applies to Leopard or not), when you turn your computer on or wake it from sleep, if Airport is enabled it will try to connect to the first wireless network in the list that it finds. But if you want to connect to a different network by default, there is no obvious way to set the default.
To change this, go to System Preferences, select the Network tab. Then in the 'Show' pulldown, select AirPort. This will bring up your list of available/known networks. The way it works is that it starts at the top of the list and then starts going down until it finds a network that is available. By default the networks are listed alphabetically. But you can drag and drop the networks into any order you want. If there is a particular network you want to be used as the default, just drag it up to the top of the list.
To change this, go to System Preferences, select the Network tab. Then in the 'Show' pulldown, select AirPort. This will bring up your list of available/known networks. The way it works is that it starts at the top of the list and then starts going down until it finds a network that is available. By default the networks are listed alphabetically. But you can drag and drop the networks into any order you want. If there is a particular network you want to be used as the default, just drag it up to the top of the list.
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| Categories: | Mac OS X network configuration |
| Added: | on Sep 08, 2008 at 10:25 pm |
| Added By: | an anonymous user |
