Wifi priority sequence changes after laptop reboot

Wi-Fi will connect first if is it available, normally. You can change the metric for it. Where did you change the sequence?

Both the Wifi services (there are 3 if including one tethering from a
mobile phone that I sometimes connect as a last resort but it's slow)
in my office are always on 24x7 (& 365 days a year).


I configure according to a past question/EE solution :

https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/28438273/Change-the-order-priority-of-connecting-to-Wifi-SSID.html

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/27067/change-wireless-network-priority-to-make-windows-7-choose-the-right-network-first/

http://bt.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/36763/~/changing-the-priority-of-your-wireless-connections---windows-xp

Hello sunhux,

Are you saying that with every reboot, the order of Preferred Networks is changing?

You have 3 networks, right (A,B and C)? They are all at your home, right?

So you set this order: A, B, C and after a reboot the order changes to B,A,C or C,A,B?

Btw: you didn't follow an EE article for this but articles that are not on EE (howtogeek and bt.custhelp).

It depends upon which is available. if you configure A,B,C and when you reboot A is not available it will B,C,A

Already tried what David & NerdsofTech suggested.

Hi Gerwin,
It's an EE thread
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/28438273/Change-the-order-priority-of-connecting-to-Wifi-SSID.html
which references 2 other external links.

It's in my office.

I've set it to ABC, but everytime after reboot, it will become BAC
(& it's always BAC though I wanted it to be ABC) & all 3 Wifi are
always On

>> it's always BAC though
Do you have a dual band NIC and are the 3 access points possibly not on the same band? Could be that your NIC orders the connections based on 2.4G / 5G band automatically.

Lenovo says you have one of these two:
•11a/b/g/n, PCIe Half Mini Card, Intel Centrino® Advanced-N 6205, 2x2
•11a/b/g/n, PCIe Half Mini Card, Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300, 3x3
Which is it?
And, is B an N router with A & C being G?

> •11a/b/g/n, PCIe Half Mini Card, Intel Centrino® Advanced-N 6205, 2x2
> •11a/b/g/n, PCIe Half Mini Card, Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300, 3x3
> Which is it?

My laptop is Lenovo X220 & on Network Connections, it shows as
"Intel(R) PCI bus 3, Intel WifFi Link 1000GBN"

Device Manager shows Driver version 13.0.0.107 with four driver files:
NETw5s64.sys
vwifibus.sys
NETw5c64.dll
NETw5r64.dll

> And, is B an N router with A & C being G?

Yes, B is an N router.  Don't know what's A as it's provided by
our building management while C is a 3G mobile phone
tethering service.  I have admin access to B's AP only : it's a
100Mbps broadband router used by our department but I use
A most of the time for Sharepoint & some of our corporate
eClaims/eLeave services & only uses B occasionally when
need to access public Internet directly

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> implement some new hardware and make a quick zero-handoff
> network such as using Ubquiti
Don't plan to buy/invest in a new hardware.  I'm not allowed to
turn off any Wifi services as they are shared by many staff in
our department

Why are you using A, is the connection faster?

A might be a b/g protocol AP, this may mean B has a stronger signal and newer protocol g/n. Thus I recommend option #2 above as solution: turn off automatic connection to B = problem solved. So whenever you want B on manually connect (password is saved). Whenever you're in range  of C and not A, C will auto connect.

I'm using A as it's our corporate Wifi which enables me to
login to our corporate eLeave/eClaim/Sharepoint systems.

B is to public internet as it's a broadband.


For Davis & Gerwin's suggestion, is it the same as unchecking
"Connect Automatically when this network is in range" ?

Yes, Davis & Gerwin's suggestion work as what I wanted.  Thanks!

excellent