Curious

Am relatively new to this wifi stuff. Just bought a laptop with built in
wireless. In my condo complex it found 2 unencrypted APs. Just to try it out
I tired to connect. One I connected to easily but no luck with the other.
Both signals were strong.
Any ideas on why this would be?

Thanks.

On Jan 28, 6:25 pm, "Peter Giotta" <giotta...@charter.net> wrote:
> Am relatively new to this wifi stuff. Just bought a laptop with built in
> wireless. In my condo complex it found 2 unencrypted APs. Just to try it out
> I tired to connect. One I connected to easily but no luck with the other.
> Both signals were strong.
> Any ideas on why this would be?
>
> Thanks.

The one that does not work probably has MAC address filtering turned
on so it won't connect to anything but the addresses on it's list.

There's a workaround to this - it's a false security - but that is
what's keeping you out.

Steve