Hi,
I am having a slight problem. At home I have connected my Exec to my wireless network using WEP and all is fine. HOWEVER, what if I had more than one wireless network available? I looked with my laptop yesterday and I see the neighbours have got an unencrypted network and in fact there were three wireless networks visible. BUT... if I switch on wireless on my Universal it just connects to my home network straight away as it knows about that one. That's not really a problem, but how can I get it to present me with a list of available wireless networks and let me choose which to connect to?
So, just in case I haven't explained myself properly, here is the question again:
If the Universal knows about a wireless network and is the vicinity of that wireless network, how can I get it to show me all the other available networks? Any ideas?
I fussed about with this question as well. I'm sure it's in the manual, better read that one day and learn how to use this thing :wink:
Load up wireless manager. If you're in VGA, put on your specs.
In the bottom left corner in the "menu bar" area, there are a couple of icons. One of those will bring up wireless networking where you can enter wep details, connect to any network and so on. Alternatively, if it works, use something like hitchhiker.
V
yeah, thats the way, use wireless lan settings manager, and click through there (there is a little image of a PDA bottom left of screen) clik here, and you then have the option to connect to a different network if one is detected, such as your neighbours (! hehehehe) even if you are auto connected to your home network.
Hope that makes sense!
Bryson
My xda is connecting to the wrong network and I cannot find a way to change the order of preferred networks as you would in windows xp.
This is quite frustrating as it is connecting to an ad-hoc network rather than my infrastructure network.
Any suggestions? Or any topics on the same sunbect (I did look, but struggled to find anything)
go to settings,connections,network card keep tapping on your preferred connection and select connect.
Just found it! Thanks for your help though
Hello,
Pardon me for any indescretions as I am new. I recently purchased a Telus P4000 with Windows Mobile 6 Pro on it. What I can't figure out are the difference between selecting "Work" or "Internet" in the wi-fi settings. Also when you add connections to the "connections" panel what are the differences? All I know is I want to establish a PPTP VPN and it seems impossible no matter what I do. I also don't understand the "This network connects to the Internet check" box under the "Proxy Settings" tab in the "My Work Network". Please can someone explain all this to me? I am systems and network engineer with over 17 years experience but all this just made me feel completely useless. I have been unable to determine the relationships in all this. Thanks in advance.
~Rodre
I have upgraded my rom to WM6 (not WM61 yet) and once I enable Wi-Fi I go to Settings > Connections > Wi-Fi but I just get list of my network cards.
I bet that I'VE SEEN list of networks few days ago because I remember the signal strength for each network (new feature in WM6).
Don't tell me to search because I did search for more than 30 minutes on my PPC and I can't find it.
I think I enabled some kind of feature "auto-connect" and it dis-allows me to select network by myself.
However, I managed to found Singal quality bar, best performence/battery and things like MAC Address but it just says "Connecting to network." nothing else.
After I turn on Wi-Fi it doesn't even tell me that network has been detected or "Insert WEP Key" but I'm sure there is a network because on WM5 I could connect to my Router.
Is it somewhere hidden or what? Is there any software enabling me to select network?
Waiting for fast reply,
~Keth
There should be 2 tabs - one saying Network Adapters, the other saying Wireless.
Try the Wireless tab.
hello help,
my wife has an htc hd2 phone and i am trying to connect it to our home network. we have an mn700 microsoft router. i have security on it WEP
and on channel 3. The phone is asking for a network key and i put in the wep key and and put it on channel 3 it
states that iam connected but we still can not surf the web.
all other wireless computers and laptops in the house i have assigned a
static ip, i oculd give her phone a static ip but i can not find where or how to do this on htc hd2 phone.
i am thinking that this is the solution, if not please point in the right direction.
also ineed step by step directions on the phone since it is not mine i do not know to much about it.
thanks,
craig
I'm right there with ya, exact same problem. It's amazing to me that a device as sophisticated as this is so difficult to set up. Here are my posts from the t-mobile forum..PLEASE HELP...
I just got my htc hd2. So far I love it. my last phone was a G1 and it was able to automatically switch to my home wireless network when I got in range. Is this possible on the hd2? Also Is it possible to set a static IP address for these devices? I have not been able to get it to work on my LAN. If anyone can give me a walkthrough to set the phone up so It automatically switches to my LAN with a static IP when I'm in range this phone will be pefect...wife just got the cliq xt and she's teasing me... TIA
can anyone tell me how to set a static IP address and how to get it to connect over my LAN. I called customer care and the person i spoke to only had a set of written guide lines and couldn't tell me how to do it, said he had never been asked before. So, Here's what I've done so far to get this device to work with my wireless at home. 1st, Click START > SETTINGS> Wireless Controls and turn Wi-Fi on. It sees my Wireless network and the icon spins to let me know it's attempting to connect? I've put my network password in before so eventually I get a green check mark. So next I tap Advanced in the lower right corner and get to the Wireless Lan page. Then I tap the Change Network button which again lists my wireless networks in range and mine is listed as connected. so then I click the Network Adapters Tab, which brings me to my first question. What should be the setting for "My network card connects to:" I assume "The Internet" but I could be wrong. Below is a long list of adapters I can modify, which brings me to my next question which adapter do I modify? I assume the Broadcom 802.11 Network Adapter, when I tap it I get a screen where I can set a static IP and DNS. I figured I had it at that point, except It doesn't seem to work!. The wi-fi antenna icon is at the top and I have two arrows next to it pointing left and right. green check on my wi-fi network, but when I try to use Opera browser it says ERROR! Connection closed by remote server and I cannot ping the ip i set in the device from my network. I go back turn Wi-Fi off and everything works again. AM I DOING ANY OF THIS RIGHT? thanks again.
Okay, got it to the point to where I can ping the device on my network. The adapter I had to set the static ip to was the Broadcom 802.11 DHD Network Adapter. Using Wi-Fi toggle to turn it on and off and it responds well and connects reliably. However, when I try to browse it fires up the 3G connection. I have just now been able to use remote desktop on my local network using the servers IP, without it turning on the 3g connection. Looks great in 16bit color, but no landscape mode? Most other apps, facebook the browser and others make the 3g connection come back on. How can I make all data connections go over my lan? almost there....
I got it to work, not sure if this is best practice or not, and it's definitely not elegant, but it works.
1. Touch Start > Settings > Wireless Controls and Turn wi-fi on
2. Select your wireless network and enter your password or key
3. Once you are connected (green check), touch Advanced > Change Network (under the ssid) you will see your wireless connection again and it should say connected
4. touch the wireless adapters tab at the bottom. Here at the top select my network card connects to The Internet and select your wireless adapter from the list below.
5. set your static IP address and Name Server info. Touch OK and then return to the home screen
At this point you should have the wi-fi icon with two solid arrows next to your 3g icon.
6. Touch Start > Settings > menu > all settings > connections > connections > advanced tab > Select Networks.
7, change both drop downs to my isp (may be different if you named it something different)
to get back to 3g repeat steps 6 and 7 to switch both dropdowns back to tmobile data or whatever yours was originally and turn off the wi-fi (or download wi-fi toggle) and turn wi-fi off. 3g should come back on automatically if you run an app that connects to the web. if not turn data connection back on in the comm manager.
This works but this sucks. Is there an easier way to Automatically switch between 3g and wi-fi? Am I making a simple problem over complicated? or is there and app for this? Android beats winmo 6.5 on this one.
still no wifi
hello,
trying for days, i can not get your setup to work. still connected
but no internet browsing. i took the same ip that i am using for the phone and put it on the laptop---so i know it is the phone and not anything going on
with the router.
craig
To the OP, i am by no means an expert on this topic. This is how i got mine to work. only advice i could give is to make sure you are editing the correct adapter and if you named your connection settings something different double check. How far do u get with the instructions? do you get a green check after you put in your network key?
I can switch back and forth between wi-fi and 3g no problem but it would be nice to have it done automatically when i'm in range...can anyone help
finally
we reset the phone and then followed your directions. Viola! it worked!
we are working on how to setup identies for different networks,
thanks again mr1credible.
Update. My phone locked up hard and kept telling me my password was incorrect so I had to do a hard reset...After the reset, I decided to take another look at the Network settings..I've got it set up now so that All I have to do is turn wi-fi on and it will use my wi-fi as the preferred connection. All I did was follow steps 1-6 as previous except when I got to step 7, I only changed the second drop down to My ISP. Both Icons 3G and Wi-Fi appear at the top but I can remote desktop my PC and connect to my shares on my local network. I also have it set to automatically shut off my wi-fi if it cannot connect in 30 sec, So when I leave for work in the morning I don't have to remember to shut it off, and I don't have to switch back and forth between settings anymore. All i have to do is turn wi-fi on when I get home. Not bad. Still would like to have it automatically detect my network and connect when in range but I can live with this....
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