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pablobhz

pablobhz

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Hello.

Well, there'll be no need to test solution 2 since our friend @Cowardlyduck did it and he said the problem persists. Windows keeps tryng to connect to a different network.

 

A variable i have in common with him, is that students bring their own laptops. We can't do much than just setup it for wireless connection.

 

"Alternatively, a crude way is to set which clients can connect to an AP using their MAC address. But you'd lose mobility as you'd have to know which clients should connect. "

Think about how painful it would be to set each laptop, cell phone, iphone, whatever mac address to connect :) ! I prefer do don't think about it my brain hurts hehe

 

Let me tell how things happens here.

Some student brings his/her laptop ok.

When it connects to one AP, the server gives him a IP address. The AP doesn't act as a DHCP server, there's a 2003 server (AD,DNS,DHCP,Printing services and some files) who gives to the laptop an IP address.

Also, we setup a proxy for the student. (ERhm, there's a big WAN(across states) where i do work).

 

Those are my conditions here.

But for now i decided to just leave things quietly...

I just teach the student how to connect to wireless networks, tell him the default password and nothing more. I just wanted to make things easier for me and to 'em.

 

Thanks in advance, what i readed here gave me some nice ideas for the future.

 

Pablo.

eean

eean

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Hello.

Well, there'll be no need to test solution 2 since our friend @Cowardlyduck did it and he said the problem persists. Windows keeps tryng to connect to a different network.

 

 

Up to you, but I can tell you that solution 2 does work. I've implemented it myself on several networks using a range of APs and a mix of clients. It's also a standard Edugeek solution to this problem - search the forums and you'll get several threads with the same idea. Just because it doesn't work for one person, doesn't mean it's not going to work for you.

 

In addition, you could set up Automatic Configuration for proxy, which would save you another job. Also it would mean that users don't need to switch settings between college and home. Search Google for WPAD.

 

Good luck. :)

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dwhyte85

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Hello,

 

We have put this in (solution 2), we had a limited budget and this seemed to be the best way for us to go.

 

We put in Linksys WAP200E's, changed channels of points within close proximity and standardised all the AP's, we have noticed that people plugging in ad-hoc devices (which isn't allowed!!) it can kill our AP's... especially the Mac plug-in wall thingies.

 

We do have a few issues, mainly with the above and sometimes they do cut out randomly without us really knowing why, overall though for around £2000.00 we pretty much have full coverage of our school and nearly a 5th of the issues we did have... perfect for the 100 netbooks we're about to roll out >_<

 

This is a mini-hijack... with isolation on the APs it seems to resolve the issue with the ad-hoc APs that randomly emerge, it sometimes causes an issue with us having to manually double click the pre-setup connection, we check the details and all is OK (correct encryption, correct password as it's worked prior) - is this normal with isolation of APs?

apoth0r

apoth0r

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On a similar note, is there anything that connects to the best available Wireless Access Point?

We have 3 points at the moment covering a rather heavily walled school, so even though they aren't too far away it makes a huge difference as to which point you can use effectively.

By default I've set them to the middle area which allows connection to classrooms either side, but on a lower speed. Ideally I'd like something that picks up the best of the three at the time. I suppose I'm dreaming :(

eean

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On a similar note, is there anything that connects to the best available Wireless Access Point?

We have 3 points at the moment covering a rather heavily walled school, so even though they aren't too far away it makes a huge difference as to which point you can use effectively.

By default I've set them to the middle area which allows connection to classrooms either side, but on a lower speed. Ideally I'd like something that picks up the best of the three at the time. I suppose I'm dreaming :(

 

I don't understand. Solution 2 (above) should do that - or at least it will pick up AP with the strongest signal, although that doesn't always = fastest throughput. For that you need Ruckus/Aruba @ $$$!

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Arthur

Arthur

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I think other people have had this problem with corrupt .zips. Are you using Internet Explorer by any chance? If so, perhaps Firefox or Chrome might be worth trying?
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Zourous

Zourous

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I'm pulling up an old thread here as I'm hoping someone can help. We've just changed our wireless network and need to add the key to a load of student and staff laptops in the easiest way, quite soon!

 

I can see how it can be done using netsh commands but my boss doesn't want the key visible in an xml file in a share.

 

I've looked back through this thread and have tried WifiCfg_XP.exe (v1.4). I'm not sure if it works with W7 but I can't get it to work on my home laptop

 

Same with zwlancfg.exe (v2.1). Also not sure if it works with W7. It doesn't seem to like any switches, even the one that lists the current wireless profiles so I'm

guessing probably not.

 

We don't use a RADIUS server so that option is out

 

Any ideas? There must be a modern way of doing this surely?

Roberto

Roberto

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I'm pulling up an old thread here as I'm hoping someone can help. We've just changed our wireless network and need to add the key to a load of student and staff laptops in the easiest way, quite soon!

 

I can see how it can be done using netsh commands but my boss doesn't want the key visible in an xml file in a share.

 

Assuming you're applying this to the machines in a logon script, then why not block domain users from the share and only allow domain computers to access it?

 

Or you can do it with GPOs now I believe. You might find this helpful.

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slinghshot

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Hi Guys,

 

I have got the autoit script working that sets the wifi settings.

 

I have put it in as a startup script using a gpo, is there anyway either using the gpo itself or by amending the script so that it only runs once then doesnt run again after the settings have been applied?

 

Thanks Guys

 

Phil

 

Is there any way I can get some more information on the autoit script or any new way to get this done? 8 years later lol.

Arthur

Arthur

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any new way to get this done? 8 years later lol.

netsh?

 

netsh wlan show profiles

 

netsh wlan export profile name="YourWirelessNetwork" folder="%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\WP" key=clear

 

netsh wlan add profile filename="%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\WP\Profile.xml" user=all

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