Changing Wireless From Home to Public

Nitefly · 3 Nov 2009 at 13:04

Hello all,

Sorry for the simple question as I'm such a novice, but I would really appreciate your help. I have set my wireless connection at my university as a home connection, when really I meant to click 'public'.

How can I change this connection to a public one? I'm runnign Windows 7 professional - Many thanks

Antar Bolaeisk · 3 Nov 2009 at 13:21

Should just be a case of going into the network control center (er right click you network connection and click the most obvious looking choice as I can't remember the exact name). In there you should see the network properties and just underneath the network map you should see a place where you can change the network designation.

Apologies for the rough answer, I'm away from my Win7 machine at the moment and this is off the top of my head.

Nitefly · 3 Nov 2009 at 13:23

Antar Bolaeisk said:
Should just be a case of going into the network control center (er right click you network connection and click the most obvious looking choice as I can't remember the exact name). In there you should see the network properties and just underneath the network map you should see a place where you can change the network designation.

Apologies for the rough answer, I'm away from my Win7 machine at the moment and this is off the top of my head.

D'oh, I'm such a fool

Thank you very much for your help, much appreciated

Antar Bolaeisk · 3 Nov 2009 at 13:32

No worries, glad you got it sorted (even based on the sketchy vaguely-pointing-over-that-way instructions)