and it's good to know the network is secure after all. Hannah, if your network at home is not secure you really should secure it. It's easy to connect to someone else's network if the connection is not secure and use it for yor own purposes. This may just be to find something out on the web or download your email but there are far more sinister activities than this. For what it's worth, I would have no concerns what so ever about connecting to an unsecured wireless network to read my mail or look up train times. I know this is stealing someone else's bandwidth but I really do regard this as the network owner's problem for not employing basic security such as using WEP at least to provide the security of needing to know a password in order to connect. Hiding the SSID is also a good idea. You define the SSID when you set up the network, and this is what is displayed when you see the name of the network in the list you can connect to. Cheers Graham Graham Page Home Phone: 0207 265 9493 Mobile: 07753 607980 Fax: 0870 706 2773 Email: gpage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx MSN: gabriel_mcbird@xxxxxxxxxxx Skype: gabriel_mcbird ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Hallsworth" <christopherhallsworth71@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 11:40 AM Subject: [access-uk] Re: connected at vollentary placement Hi Hannah, That's great to know that you've successfully connected. However, they should have said to you yesterday that it's a secure network, however you could argue that most businesses employ this to prevent hackers. In terms of finding the network automatically, Windows should automatically recognize that you are no longer connected to that network when you get home, thus switching to the one at home. I hope this helps, and have a nice day! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hannah Day" <hannahday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 11:26 AM Subject: [access-uk] connected at vollentary placement > Hi all. > > just to let you know i am connected successfully at my vollentary work > placement. It's a secure network so i had to ask for a net work key and > a password. but it's set to a automatick network. so does that mean i > will have to view my networks when i get home. > > thanks hannah > ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- > ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] > ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: > ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > ** and in the Subject line type > ** unsubscribe > ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the > ** immediately-following link:- > ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] > ** or send a message, to > ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq > ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq __________ NOD32 2430 (20070731) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq