Managing Wireless Network Connections
If you travel and connect to different networks, Windows will collect a list of several known networks.
When Windows is not currently connected to any wireless network, it scans through its list of known networks, in order. If any is in range, and you have enabled automatic connection, Windows selects the one it thinks you’re most likely to want to use and then connects. (Previous versions of Windows let you manually prioritize the list of known networks. Windows 8 guesses based on your past usage, and lets you change the networks if it guesses wrong.)
In most cases, this system works without any adjustments, but there are ways to change the preferences if necessary, as we discuss in the next few sections. ...
Get Windows 8 In Depth now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
