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    My laptop is dectected as a wireless connections by my friends's laptops

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by rose_jas4u, Oct 18, 2010.

  1. rose_jas4u

    rose_jas4u Newbie

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    i have a sony vaio eseries laptop. Oflate ive observed that my friends's laptop detects my laptop in their list of wireless connections. y is this so? is this harmful?
     
    rose_jas4u, Oct 18, 2010
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  2. namaiki

    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    Disable ad-hoc wireless if you don't need to use it that way.
     
    namaiki, Oct 18, 2010
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  3. Pitabred

    Pitabred Linux geek con rat flail!

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    Is it running XP? It's a known issue with the way that XP runs it's wireless. It automatically tried to set up an ad-hoc network of the same name as the last network it connected to if it can't connect to a network.

    It's a "feature"
     
    Pitabred, Oct 18, 2010
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