Mac Book Pro & BT Openzone

[GreatScott]

I am after a bit of help please - though I could equally post this thread as a rant.

I have a new Mac Book Pro but whenever I turn on, either from fresh or from sleep mode, and go into Safari I find I am automatically logged onto BT Openzone and not my own home (sky) network. I have (several times) gone into system preferences clicked on network and selected my own network etc, and have no problems until next time I go into Safari. Making the changes in system preferences makes no difference. It is as if BT Openzone is set up to over ride my settings and muscle in.

How can I stop this happening ?

 

[Wingit]

I am after a bit of help please - though I could equally post this thread as a rant.

I have a new Mac Book Pro but whenever I turn on, either from fresh or from sleep mode, and go into Safari I find I am automatically logged onto BT Openzone and not my own home (sky) network. I have (several times) gone into system preferences clicked on network and selected my own network etc, and have no problems until next time I go into Safari. Making the changes in system preferences makes no difference. It is as if BT Openzone is set up to over ride my settings and muscle in.

How can I stop this happening ?

It's picking up your neighbours router.
Go to the top band on the screen, click on the wifi signal icon, open up Network preferences and select your router (whatever it's named as) as the default router. It should hopefully then search for that before it picks up another signal. I had the same problem with mine. It was picking up and locking on to another Netgear router. In the end I gave my Netgear router a unique name so that the MacBook grabbed the right signal.

Hope this helps. Cheers, Ken.

 

[tricky dicky]

hi Gs

Just got a new macbook pro too (upgrade from 13" Macbook) - 15" 2.8Ghz 500GB 4GB Ram - I am a "PC" and a 'Mac' - both have their pluses and minuses. Though last three years have seen me primarily using Macbook at home.

The trackpad has occasionally frozen when I tick the secondary click button and battery life says 4.5 hrs rather than claimed 7hrs, guess I need to calibrate the battery.

Aesthetically gorgeous and oh so fast and graphics are brilliant.

Migration Assistant was a breeze.

Well pleased.

TD

 

[GreatScott]

It's picking up your neighbours router.
Go to the top band on the screen, click on the wifi signal icon, open up Network preferences and select your router (whatever it's named as) as the default router. It should hopefully then search for that before it picks up another signal. I had the same problem with mine. It was picking up and locking on to another Netgear router. In the end I gave my Netgear router a unique name so that the MacBook grabbed the right signal.

Hope this helps. Cheers, Ken.

Thanks Ken.

I'll give it a go,but I think that is just a short hand way of re-setting the router to way I described. I'll report back

 

[GreatScott]

I'll report back

Well I have tried it - turned it on & off twice and (fingers crossed) it seems to have worked - so far !

Thank you

 

[GreatScott]

The solution it turns out is to click on the wifi symbol in the top bar, select open network preferences, click on advanced and then high light the offending network, click on the minus symbol and hey presto gone !