How to connect Vista to hide the SSID Wireless Network

As Microsoft's latest family operating system, Vista has been favored by many family users. It is an upgraded version of the XP system and has made great progress in entertainment, security, usability, and other aspects, many users have upgraded the operating system of their home machines to Vista, but Vista is inconvenient for some users in terms of wireless, today, I will solve the problem of wireless applications in two Vista systems.

I. Weak wireless signals in Vista:

My friends have just installed XP and Vista systems on their home machines. However, the wireless network in the Vista system has a poor signal and the transmission speed is also affected. In the XP system, wireless signals can be sent to the Vista system with only two cells. In addition, the original signal in the home is not connected to the wireless router in the Vista system.

I was asked by my friends to conduct troubleshooting and found that the situation is true. Due to the use of wireless network cards, wireless routers have not changed, and there is no additional signal interference source at home, so the author puts the key to the problem on the driver of the wireless Nic In the Vista system. It is widely known that a hardware cannot work or is not working properly because the driver is not properly installed.

View the wireless NIC Driver Under Vista. The driver was automatically installed by Vista at the time of installation. I downloaded the corresponding driver suitable for the Vista system from the wireless Nic official website and re-installed it, after restarting the computer to enter the Vista system, the problem is solved and the signal returns to normal.

Conclusion-it seems that some hardware-branded drivers in Vista still have compatibility issues. Although they can be connected to wireless networks, there are more or less functional issues, therefore, when using wireless products in the Vista system, we should try to manually install the driver instead of letting the Vista system automatically install the driver.

Ii. connect to and hide the SSID wireless network under Vista:

Some friends asked me how to connect to a wireless network that hides the SSID information under Vista. I tested that, in Vista, wireless networks that hide the SSID information are often unable to connect smoothly. After troubleshooting, we found that the root cause of the problem was an additional parameter added by the Vista system. The author takes the English version of Vista as an example to introduce the solution. The specific steps are as follows.

Step 1: Open the network connection corresponding to the wireless network and select its properties in the manage wireless network window.

Step 2: Find the Connection tag in the Properties window of the wireless network Connection, under this label, we can see an option named "connect even if the network is not broadcasting" (continue to connect even if the network is not broadcast). You can check the option before this option.

Step 3: Make sure that the settings take effect after the selection. Then, the wireless network card in Vista will automatically connect to the wireless network without the broadcasted SSID information. This solves the actual problem.

Iii. Summary:

In short, there are still some small problems with wireless network applications in the Vista system. After all, it is different from the XP system, in addition, some default settings are disabled or disabled to ensure user security and privacy. However, as long as we use more, we can gradually get familiar with Vista, so that he can better serve us.

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