Removing an Airport Preferred Network
My mother has a Linksys wireless bridge so that she can use her laptop anywhere around her home. Of course, the default network name is “linksys”. And, of course, I’ve connected to that network while at her house.
About a month ago, someone nearby my home got a Linksys wireless router. The network is open and still named “linksys”. It’s actually somewhat convenient for times that my network is down (like when I’m overhauling my home network layout — I’ve never had an unscheduled outage with SpeakEasy that wasn’t my fault). Unfortunately, my laptop likes the new network more than it likes my home wireless network and would always connect there first. Not cool.
Finally, I’ve tracked down list of networks to which Airport will connect and removed a bunch of cruft. For example, I don’t think I’ll need eircom any time soon. To open the list of preferred wireless networks, navigate: Apple menu > System Settings > Network > Airport
After I removed everything except tmobile and my home network, I discovered that I could have simply re-arranged the networks in order of preference, putting my home network first. Oh well.
