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Ad-hoc Networks
Name: littlesturt Date: April 17, 2008 at 23:35:18 Pacific OS: vista home premium CPU/Ram: AMDx2 1.9ghz/2GB Product: HP Pavillion Laptop
Comment:
Hi, I'm just wondering if anyone knows a way to make vista automatically connect to an ad-hoc wireless network. I know it is possible to do this for an infrastructure type network, but i cannot seem to do it with an ad-hoc.
XP seems to treat the two types of networks the same, where as vista definetly treats them differently.
An ad hoc network is typically deployed as a temporary connection for short term resource sharing among systems in such a network.
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Response Number 2
Name: littlesturt Date: April 20, 2008 at 23:49:55 Pacific
Reply:
yeah, its just the "start this connection automatically" (like shown in the pictures on that website) isn't an option when creating or connecting to an ad-hoc network.
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