Got a HTPC in the living room that has a Wireless N card as does my main computer and they happily connect at 135Mbps directly to each other.
I do also have a router but like most the router is only Wireless B/G. So what I currently have the HTPC doing is it forces connection to my computer directly when my computer is on and when it isn't it just defaults back to my standard home network.
The thing is if I don't force it to connect every 5 minutes like it does now then it doesn't refresh the network connections and so doesn't pick up my computer to auto-swap with Windows 7's built in network preference thing.
I've already set the home network to default to preferred connection if available, but as I said if I don't force it to connect to mine it doesn't even seem to bother updating the available networks list if mine is on.
At the moment I'm just running a NetSH script every 5 minutes, surely there has to be a better way or even a piece of software that can do this for me?
Edit: Here's a picture to show the problem. The network is available and it even shows it in the available list, but hasn't swapped to it for whatever reason.
Just so you know, 'New_Warrior' is what the actual direct connection is called, for some reason when I created the NetSH script it put it under 'Profile 1' and that's what it connects as when forced
I do also have a router but like most the router is only Wireless B/G. So what I currently have the HTPC doing is it forces connection to my computer directly when my computer is on and when it isn't it just defaults back to my standard home network.
The thing is if I don't force it to connect every 5 minutes like it does now then it doesn't refresh the network connections and so doesn't pick up my computer to auto-swap with Windows 7's built in network preference thing.
I've already set the home network to default to preferred connection if available, but as I said if I don't force it to connect to mine it doesn't even seem to bother updating the available networks list if mine is on.
At the moment I'm just running a NetSH script every 5 minutes, surely there has to be a better way or even a piece of software that can do this for me?
Edit: Here's a picture to show the problem. The network is available and it even shows it in the available list, but hasn't swapped to it for whatever reason.
Just so you know, 'New_Warrior' is what the actual direct connection is called, for some reason when I created the NetSH script it put it under 'Profile 1' and that's what it connects as when forced
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