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Root WIFI tether autoconnect

tmproff

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May 3, 2010
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Long time lurker, but 1st post! I rooted my phone about a month ago using BB v1.0 and loving it. The major reason I rooted was for the wifi tether. My situation might be a bit different than other people that are using wifi tether, since I'm connecting to my car (www.mp3car.com). Using the app wifi tether, I can easily connect to a network manually, but everytime I turn off my car, it obviously looses connection. When I turn my car back on, I have to MANUALLY reconnect. I am using Windows 7 and have created the profile that's supposed to reconnect automatically, but it never does. I believe that since this isn't a real wifi hotspot and just an adhoc network, that this automatic connection isn't possible with just Windows 7 networking settings.

Has anyone had any success getting your wifi tether to automatically connect to their laptop when you turn it on?

Thanks for your help,
-Troy
 
Well it looks like I answered my own question:

The following command is helpful in connecting the adhoc networks automatically.

netsh wlan connect name=Profile2 ssid=SSID2 interface="Wireless Network Connection"

ssid - SSID of the wireless network.
name - Name of the profile to be used in connection attempt.
interface - Name of the interface from which connection is attempted.

To connect to any network automatically do the following

1. open the startup folder of the current user

eg. C:\Users\<UserName>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Wind ows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

2. create a shortcut

Right click
 
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