Does anybody know how to connect to AP via MAC adress, I have 3-4 Access Points with the same name, so when I connect to one of them it connect me to the AP with best signal, not to the AP wich I chose! Also there are some AP's with blank name and my D-Link progy do not recognize them! I saw those blank AP's with Cain&Abel and it's give me only MAC adress!
I use D-Link Air Plus 120+ USB adatper!



Thanks in advice!


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davs

clearly you have no idea what you are talking about

basicly accesspoints/networks don't have names they have *ssid
if the accesspoints belong to the same network, there really is no reason why to prefer one over another
if the accesspoints do belong to different networks, just select the right network, either with zeroconf service or an app specific for your wifi drivers

[/me] doesn't tell you how you would force it on linux

rhican said: "basicly accesspoints/networks don't have names they have *ssid"

thanks on that information i do not know that before

In our country ISP give us adsl+wireless router, so, by default all wireless router SSID set to:" Connection Point" also there is no wep or wpa security!
And when i want connect to "another" SSID it's connect me to SSID with best signal not for that i choose!
For example:

First is SSID=Connection Point
BSSID=00-01-e3-c8-1d-4d
Signal= 49dBm
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Second is: SSID=Connection Point
BSSID=00-01-e3-47-c0-21
Signal=56 dBm

And when i want to connect to first one, i choose it, but it connect me to the second one, because there is better signal!
So, I am interesting how to connect to AP which i want, is there some progy which i could use to connect over BSSID?

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rhican, do u know what i talknig about,now?
regards to all TBS users, especially to rhican

well in linux you would issue a command like this and be done with it :

iwconfig eth1 ap 00:1A:D4:2F:1A:28

there i said it

#windows

rhican how would you make windows connect to a specific accesspoint when there are two nearby with the same ssid?
scratchme Two with the same SSID?
scratchme Why in the world do you have 2 with the same SSID?
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rhican just humor me
scratchme No idea, you aren't supposed to have 2.
arooni what font do you guys use for your cmd app?
scratchme The whole point of SSIDs is so you can differentiate between networks.
rhican so what if they are the same network
Penggu hi all. doing my 1st outlook 2003 form.. i'm trying to programmatically (scriptually) modify the 'readonly' property on a textbox, but i can't find any reference in the docs to it .. anyone know how to change it?
rhican but different ap's
scratchme If the two Access points are part of the same network, one should be a repeater, not  regular access points.
rhican and i want to connect to a specific one
scratchme point.
rhican humor me, :)
scratchme I will, by refusing to talk about it anymore.

so basically it will probably be possible (no reason why it shouldn't) but it's poorly documented and nobody knows about it. Lets just say paying for windows is definatly not worth it's buck

the closest the channel got was "newsid" from sysinternals but if i'm not retarded that looks to be something entirely different.

o yeah to be fair i asked the same thing in #linux so you can compare

rhican anybody how i could connect to a spefic access point (i have MAC) even if there is another one with same ssid nearby with a stronger signal?
enouf vexati0n: http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/p15.htm
Dante123 I have Dell Optiplex 192 MB RAM, 350 MHZ Pentium II processor......and an HP Pavilion 533 AMD K2 Processor with 256 MB ram.....both have 5 gig drives.....any recommendations on a linux distro for these older machines????
MrElendig rhican:man iwconfig

Rhican, thanks a lot! I will install linux but some other time, for now i found solution!
192.168.1.1
Connecting...
Router Login
Password: "guessed"(after few attempts) then i changed SSID to Conection Point (without one "n" in Connection), user probably will not saw the difference but for me that is SOLUTION !

Anyway, thanks once again Rhican! best regards!

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davs