Hi
If the computer has also Wire Network Card configure the Metrics to prefer
the Wireless.
This page was written for WinXP, the principle is the same for Vista the
menus to get there are different but easy to adjust to Vista.
http://www.ezlan.net/metrics.html
Jack (MS, MVP-Networking)
"tdp" <tdp@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I am running Vista x64 on a wireless network, WPA, TKIP. The network
>connects
> and works fine when you connect manually, but even if you check the
> "automatically connect" checkbox, after turning off the computer you have
> to
> connect manually again and the checkbox is unchecked.
>
> Had an XP machine with wireless before and this was never a problem. Have
> a
> Vista x32 connected with Ethernet cable that has no problem getting on
> network automatically either.
>
> Router is WRT54GS (I know it's old), but my computer is not totally
> incompatible if I get a good connection and good speed on the network.
> Seems
> that I am not the only one having this problem on this forum, but the
> other
> cases seemed somewhat different?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> tdp