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I have an XP home system with SP2 installed, and am using a netgear wireless 108 rangemax router and wireless USB adapter.

Every time I boot, it never connects to the internet until I force a repair of the connection.

I'm trying to determine how to use AHK to launch a script on bootup to wait a few minutes, and then repair this connection.

Are there any shortcut commands that I could use instead of opening the network connections, and right clicking the proper connection, and selecting repair from the context menu?

A command line maybe? like repair 192.168.1.115

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Jeff Main

I googled for repair network connection windows and found an interesting link:
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb%3 ... &x=15&y=14
You may have to execute one or more of these commands to get the same effect.

Also found the netsh command which seems interesting, but I have no time to explore further.

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Thanks Phil!
I had done that also, and already tried ipconfig /renew, but that requires DHCP, of which I do not have running. to make matters worse, I have static IP addresses so that when my 2 systems are on the road with the netgear router, they are able to connect to each other without an internet connection. One of the systems acts as a server, and I get remote data from it on the other system.

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Jeff Main

Problem solved. No longer necessary to find an AHK solution.

Something was conflicting between the unused wired, and the wireless. I disabled the wired in bios, and problem solved.

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Jeff Main

Trying to get hacked

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Religion is false. >_>

Why?
I have WEP enabled
It would take quite some time and patience to hack into it, and there are many more that aren't secure at all that hackers would go after before going after mine.

Must think I'm stupid...

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Jeff Main

You'll be suprised how fast they can figure out your wep key. I don't know if it got any faster but the last time I heard it was around 10 minutes.

you can only get hacked on a wireless router if the person hacking you is withing range. In the typical residential neighborhood (city), you have to be within a house or two of a malicious jerk. the odds are very low.

everyone is so afraid of wireless - i don't understand why. in any case, you should be more afraid of the internet, mostly botnets. a simple (good) router blocks that though.

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Its called luck, an average attempt on a secure network takes I believe around 12-24 hours.

And no I do not know from experience.

I with engunneer on this one, unless you live next too a jerk, you are pretty safe. They would have to park outside your house for quite a time otherwise, and they wouldn't bother unless they knew you had something worth getting at.

The net is far more dangerous, what with phishing, spyware, mallicious website etc.

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Steve F AKA Superfraggle

http://r.yuwie.com/superfraggle

A little more than a year ago I saw this digg story:
http://digg.com/apple/WEP_Hacking_with_KisMac_in_10mins

And there aren't enough people with the knowledge to put you really in danger. I'm just saying that you don't have to take for granted that you're safe in a wireless network, but that there are just like on the internet itself dangers to watch out for. or at least that's what I meant

You pretty much just stated that we're no safer on wired than wireless, so why the hassle?

I'm in a small residential area, I get maybe 40-50 cars down my street each day. None of them park in range of my router other than my neighbors.

I'm not worried!
I have a much better chance of getting hacked on my wired internet connection.

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Jeff Main

I'm sorry but I don't see any logic in your reply..


huh?

They are the same except one goes through air and one goes through the ground and walls etc. It's easier to get hooked up to the wireless. And I don't know any hackers who have dug a hole in the ground to hack someone. Please remember with the Internet attacks from ex. china india or wherever you're not any safer on a wireless connection than a wired connection.

So then you have that someone can connect to your wireless-connection and get far off remote attacks(china,india,etc). In contradiction the wired connection can only get far off remote attacks and a hacker cannot connect to your wired connection without digging a hole.

I don't know where you live or whatever. I'm just saying that you have to watch out with the wireless connection, because someone *can*(not saying that someone is) connect to your wireless connection which makes it more vulnerable.

I can understand that you're not worried about your wireless-connection at all but you're not the only one with a wireless connection. What if you lived in the middle of the city with a wireless router with a pretty big range? Before I posted a reply I didn't know that you live in a small residential area and get 40-50 cars down your street every day and that they don't park in the range of your router.

So the wireless connection makes you more vulnerable than a wired connection. However in your case you're pretty safe because in your area you're not likely to get hacked.

The logic is... There are many more people around the world trying to hack into yours and my wired systems, than there are in my neighborhood, trying to get onto my lowly wireless system....

Does that compute?????

It's a matter of capability.
Someone in China can't hack my wireless, but he can get through my wired with the proper Virus.

This problem has been solved!

A year ago to boot!

Why are you digging it up and making issue of it?

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Jeff Main

*yawn* seriously.
Yes I know that people are trying to get through a wired connection to my computer. But please if just about every wired connection would be made into a wireless connection you would have the same problem. It's not the problem of the wired connection it's the internet itself. It doesn't matter what kind of connection you have. Wired or wireless once you're connected to the internet directly (no router or firewall) it would not matter if you were being attacked by someone from china. With the same attack it would go through your wireless as if it would through your wired. The hack attack from china isn't to your router... it's to your computer.


Because what you say isn't right that a wireless connection is safer than a wired connection. It's the same thing, when we're talking about hackers trying to attack you from china.
The only difference between wired and wireless is that there is always a possibility that someone might connect to your network by figuring out the wep-key. Your wired connection is safe from (close by..... not the chinese )intruders unless the hacker is connected within your network.

Yes in your situation it's probably okay to have a wireless network. Probably not one hacker will ever try to get into your wireless network. I'm not talking about you. In general a wired connection is safer than a wireless connection.

If you think that I'm still wrong. Please let's both end this discussion. I don't want to put any more time in this, because you just don't seem to understand. Btw if you know someone who knows a lot about the internet ask him/her what's wrong with this phrase: maybe they can explain.

O yeah and by the way:
Does that compute? (haahaa sooooooo funny*sarcasm*)

Have a nice day

OMG!!

disconnect everything, pull all the plugs or they are gunna hack you & can even gain remote access to the refrigerator & do things like crank up the temp, thaw out your meat & steal your beer!! Wait till you see what they put in the ice cream!! ewwwwwwwwwww

seriously -- i'm more worried about a power surge caused by direct lightning strike than getting my wireless hacked.

-First they hafta get past my WPA2
-Next to do anything with the router itself -- they need to figure out the 25 char admin password.
-Then to access anything on my network they have yet another mental password to figure out.
-If they want the server -- then that is yet another crazy password to figure out.
-Next -- they will need to break the encryption on any of the files I have on the shares. Files are useless unless to them without the key.

By the time they get anywhere near step 3 I will need a new router so that places them back in step 1
I hate the wires all over the place & if someone does happen to "get in" on my wireless -- I'll see em & they will get one heck of a suprise.

OOPS!!