Laptop keeps wanting to connect to neighbor's crappy internet

[David]

My HP G50-109NR Notebook PC with windows vista keeps wanting to give priority to connecting to the neighbor's unsecured network. In fact it seems to occasionally "hijack" my computer, it suddenly drops my home network and connects to the neighbor's linksys. I've marked this network as a "public" network, hoping it would choose the private home network it has the key for by default. But it still seems to randomly want to connect to the neighbors. I can't find any other option to tell it to ignore this network.

Any suggestions?

 

[GasBandit]

Vista or Win7?

---------- Post added at 03:51 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:49 PM ----------

Nevermind, I can tell it's not XP and Vista vs Win7 shouldn't really matter for this. If you go into your network sharing center, and tell it you want to manage (or maybe configure, I don't remember, the win 7 machine is at home) wireless networks, it will give you a list of all the wireless networks your computer knows about. You can set priority of these networks by moving them up and down in the list. Ideally, you would want your home network to be at the top of the list. Setting a network as "public" or "private" only determines security behavior, not network presence.

 

[Shakey]

Also in there, you can right click the neighbors connection and choose properties. Uncheck the box "Connect when this network is in range". You'll have to manually connect to it after that.

 

[sixpackshaker]

Remember to use the neighbor's connection to do your illegal torrents and porn.

 

[Matt²]

Remember to use the neighbor's connection to do your illegal torrents and porn.

XD

 

[PatrThom]

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--Patrick

 

[SpecialKO]

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--Patrick

haha, that's great!