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#1 2015-03-18 00:46

abacurial
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Registered: 2014-05-04
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Support Autoswitch setup for non-local (previous) networks

You can only choose local wifi networks for autoswitch.

It would be good if you could choose previous networks too, so autoswitch can be set up even if you are not at the location.

tOM

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#2 2015-03-19 11:21

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Re: Support Autoswitch setup for non-local (previous) networks

To configure a wireless network in AutoSwitch both the SSID and the MAC address of that network are required. It would be possible to additionally offer the SSIDs of stored WiFi profiles. But those profiles do not include the MAC address, so the configuration would be incomplete. Thus for the configuration it's necessary to be at the location, I'm afraid.

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#3 2015-03-19 22:32

abacurial
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Re: Support Autoswitch setup for non-local (previous) networks

sad Perhaps you could store the MAC address too?

Or allow connecting by SSID? Perhaps useful for coffee shops, etc.
With a warning if MAC or channel differs.

MAC & SSID can both be spoofed, alas, for MITM attacks.

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#4 2015-03-19 23:14

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Re: Support Autoswitch setup for non-local (previous) networks

WiFi profiles are stored in and by Windows. NetSetMan only provides a better interface to them. Those profiles do not include the MAC address.

And since it's better to distinguish WiFi networks by their MAC address than by their SSID, it would only cause more confusion if you can't select "MAC" for those profiles while you can for others. We better not mix that up.

The only reasonable way would be to allow the user to manually add the MAC and SSID for a profile that's currently not nearby. But that again would probably lead to problems caused by typos. Actually probably nobody even knows the MAC address of a network you'd like to link. Where would you look it up? Exactly, you'd probably go there and have a look then. But then again, you have the possibility to configure AutoSwitch directly while you're there.

In the end: Configuring AutoSwitch isn't something you'd do every day. So it's probably OK to do this once you're at the location of interest.

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