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This has been a question I've had for a long time and I'm wondering if any good utilities exist. Has anyone else run in to the same thing?
Situation:
I'm at a university with wifi throughout campus. In any given location I can usually see using inSSIDer or WirelessMon or the built in windows command "netsh wlan show networks mode=bssid" many AP or Access Points all with the same SSID... Sometimes up to 10 or 15 as seen below.
Problem:
Sometimes an AP has great signal and windows will "roam" to that specific AP automatically, however it is heavily congested (severe ping spikes or overall slowness, I assume this happens when someone decides to saturate the bandwidth with torrents or similar activities). Moving to an AP on a different channel or one that uses Wireless-A (which almost never are congested) solves this problem.
Solution:
At least in the Windows XP days when most wireless cards came with their own software both an Intel card I had and a different one I could make an advance profile in the card manufacturers software and type in the BSSID (AP mac address) usually by hand and it would stick to it.
Now I have Windows 7 x64 and pretty much all manufacturers just use Windows networking profiles which isn't a bad thing HOWEVER it does not provide this capability that I know of.
WirelessMon (free trial at http://www.passmark.com/products/wirelessmonitor.htm ) DOES work with Windows 7 x64 and it DOES let you connect to a specific AP, however it also constantly scans in the background and is a pay utility, but is there anything simpler or anything built in that I am missing? This also is the ONLY utility that lets me do it as far as I've found.
Situation:
I'm at a university with wifi throughout campus. In any given location I can usually see using inSSIDer or WirelessMon or the built in windows command "netsh wlan show networks mode=bssid" many AP or Access Points all with the same SSID... Sometimes up to 10 or 15 as seen below.
Problem:
Sometimes an AP has great signal and windows will "roam" to that specific AP automatically, however it is heavily congested (severe ping spikes or overall slowness, I assume this happens when someone decides to saturate the bandwidth with torrents or similar activities). Moving to an AP on a different channel or one that uses Wireless-A (which almost never are congested) solves this problem.
Solution:
At least in the Windows XP days when most wireless cards came with their own software both an Intel card I had and a different one I could make an advance profile in the card manufacturers software and type in the BSSID (AP mac address) usually by hand and it would stick to it.
Now I have Windows 7 x64 and pretty much all manufacturers just use Windows networking profiles which isn't a bad thing HOWEVER it does not provide this capability that I know of.
WirelessMon (free trial at http://www.passmark.com/products/wirelessmonitor.htm ) DOES work with Windows 7 x64 and it DOES let you connect to a specific AP, however it also constantly scans in the background and is a pay utility, but is there anything simpler or anything built in that I am missing? This also is the ONLY utility that lets me do it as far as I've found.
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. I can't hardly find anything via Google and I searched for a while...