TD Computer Solutions

Hi Karl

The cellular carrier is Telus (location is Vancouver, BC Canada), and the
card is a Sierra Wireless Aircard 595. FYI, I'm a MS Small Business
Specialist partner, and also posted this question to the Partner
newsgroup....the reply I just received today from that newsgroup indicated
the following:

"I'm afraid that this is an expected behavior. Since this is a security
enhancement in Windows Vista, and all local computer firewall security
policy relies on the type of the network connection (Home/Work/Public),
we're not able to change the behavior for now. I have sent the feedback to
Windows Vista product team, and I hope that they will improve the user
experience in future release of Hotfix or Service Pack."

If this is the case, I'm just about at the point of uninstalling Vista in
favor of XP, since this issue affects a client of mine who is not
technologically savvy. If I try to show him how to manually delete the
countless profiles that have been created, and hope that he can repeat the
process time and time again, he's very likely going to do more harm than good
to his laptop. Irony of this is that he chose to go with Vista, as he was
led to believe that it was more user-friendly than XP, and he wouldn't ever
have to perform this type of maintenance (which he would consider to be quite
complex).

Regards,

Terry Dawydiak
TD Computer Solutiosn Inc.


"Karl Froelich [MS]" wrote:

> TD,
>
> Would you mind sending me the name of your celular carrier, and the specific
> nomenclature of the card you're using? I own figuring this out, and will do
> what I can to help.
>
> K.
>
> "TD Computer Solutions" <TDComputerSolutions@discussions.microsoft.com>
> wrote in message news:764FB631-3463-4276-9893-2A927D275CDC@microsoft.com...
> > I've purchased an add-on wireless cellular network mini-card for my laptop
> > that allows high speed network access via my cellular provider's network.
> > Each time I boot up my laptop and establish the wireless connection, Vista
> > presents me with a screen asking me to "Select a location for the -3G
> > Connection network', and I have to choose either Home, Work or Public
> > Location. No matter what I choose, this dialog will always pop-up the
> > next
> > time I boot up and reconnect to the wireless network. The laptop now has
> > accumulated about 15 of these network profiles, and there's no end in
> > sight.
> > How do I get Vista to recognize that I've already set up a profile for
> > this
> > network, and stop from adding additional profiles?
>