Is it possible to disable 1 wireless connection without disabling wireless all together?

Question

I want to stop picking up 1 specific wireless signal. I do NOT want to disable the wireless all together. I am rather computer literate and am familiar with how to disable wireless vs turning it off.

Is there a method of disabling a specific signal from being picked up by your computer? Long story short, I have 1 laptop, it needs to have the ability to receive wireless but I need to turn off its ability to see/receive a specific wireless signal that is in our area.

Any thoughts on how do this? Any help is greatly appreciated and thanks in advance.

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Answer 1

Any machine that does a "View Available Wireless Networks" will always see all the wireless signals available to it. You cannot block someone else's wireless broadcasts from showing up in the list.



There may be some method to restrict wireless networking changes if the user is not an administrator on the machine. That is, create an account for a plain user, and see if network changes can be restricted somehow. I don't have an answer on how to do it actually, but maybe you can search the internet for "restrict wireless changes" for your specific operating system...

Answer 2

Any machine that does a "View Available Wireless Networks" will always see all the wireless signals available to it. You cannot block someone else's wireless broadcasts from showing up in the list.



There may be some method to restrict wireless networking changes if the user is not an administrator on the machine. That is, create an account for a plain user, and see if network changes can be restricted somehow. I don't have an answer on how to do it actually, but maybe you can search the internet for "restrict wireless changes" for your specific operating system.



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Answer 3

You may be able to go in and disable network discovery if you are running a windows OS and then set up a connection to your wireless router specificly using the SSID that you have created for the router. This should allow you to connect to your wireless and your computer not see other networks in the area. Why are you trying to not see the network? I am just curious because discovering the network should not effect anything that your computer does as long as it is not connecting to that network instead of the one you want. But you may try doing it this way and see if that works for you.

Answer 4

You aspect out having a Linksys router. those are often logged into using 192.168.a million.a million because the information superhighway address on your information superhighway explorer. even even with the indisputable fact that there are others that use 192.168.15.a million - verify with guide for which one. Log into the router, username and password are often "admin". replace the on the spot settings on your liking. unlike a formerly aspect out suggestion above/below, do no longer uncheck DHCP. in case you do not understand a lot about on the spot you possibly are not technical adequate to resolve the topics you've with DHCP in case you uncheck it and do not understand a thanks to placed it again.

Answer 5

NO.

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The signal will still be picked up [received].

- You may be able to set you laptop to ignore the MAC of the unwanted signal.