Setting a default connection on Mac

[holly35]

I'm wondering if there is anyway on a mac book pro to set a default wireless connection?

Every time I turn my mac on it has no connection - so I pick our BT Voyager connection. However it picks up about 6 other connections in our street and it will always choose this Netgear one. Even if I pick our one it will then change to Net Gear so I have to go and click our one again before it sticks.

I'm guessing Net Gear must be nearest to us in the street but it has an extremely slow connection (if it ran fast I guess it wouldn't be so much of a problem!) does anyone have any ideas? I've looked around the settings/preferences and can't seem to notice anything...


(just saw it got moved, I did see the Mac section and thought it could be better off here, thank you!)

 

[Deleted member 651465]

Yes, it's easy.

Go to Apple > System Preferences > Network.

You'll be presented with this window:

Click the "advanced" button on the right to bring up this window:

The network at the top of the list will be the default network that the machine will try to connect to everytime it's booted.

Drag the networks in order or remove the ones you don't need by clicking the "-" button.

Hope that helps

 

[holly35]

Thank you I've got rid of all the other networks and turned off connecting to any others. Should work ok now hopefully!

 

[Deleted member 651465]

No problems

I'd have left them in and just moved them down to the bottom of the list. That way, OS X won't bother you when it finds new networks (should yours be down).