Windows 8 and two identical wireless SSID's (two different locations)?

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Timaphillips

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An employee at work got a new windows 8 laptop. His home network SSID is the same as our work SSID and he is having to "forget" the networks and reenter the password every time he tries to connect to one. He claims the same is happening on his phone (Note 2). I thought windows just renamed connections if there are duplicates. i.e.- "SSID" being the first and the duplicate being "SSID 2".

I'd prefer not to rename the wireless network at work as it will require me to reconnect a lot of devices that are wireless. Or worse, rename the network only to find out its something else happening with his equipment altogether. Lots of wasted time..

I'm a bit lost in win8, trying to find advanced settings or somewhere where I can see how it's actually managing the networks. Seems much easier in win7.

 
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How would windows have any idea where the device was located. All it knows is I want to connect to "xxxxxx". So it will attempt to connect with the last password it had.

There are tricks to use the netsh command to switch between 2 different profiles but it is not all that much more work to just delete them like he is doing.

I would tell him to change his home network.

It is strange since the default SSID are tend to no longer be just simple things like "netgear" they tend to add numbers to the end.

If you are using one of the very common SSID be aware you are much more subject to key cracking attempts so you need to use a much better key than the standard. The SSID is used as part of the encryption key. What the hackers...
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How would windows have any idea where the device was located. All it knows is I want to connect to "xxxxxx". So it will attempt to connect with the last password it had.

There are tricks to use the netsh command to switch between 2 different profiles but it is not all that much more work to just delete them like he is doing.

I would tell him to change his home network.

It is strange since the default SSID are tend to no longer be just simple things like "netgear" they tend to add numbers to the end.

If you are using one of the very common SSID be aware you are much more subject to key cracking attempts so you need to use a much better key than the standard. The SSID is used as part of the encryption key. What the hackers have done is pre generate all the hash values for the common SSID and common keys. It is much faster to just compare lists of hash values than to compute them.
 
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