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have already done this, then the ﬁrewall is not likely to be the problem and

we can move on.

Figure A.1: This dialog provides control over the behaviour of the Windows XP

wireless subsystem when encountering multiple networks.

The second most common issue is getting the wireless connection made

properly when using ad-hoc (camera to computer) networks. One common

cause of this is that Windows, in it’s default conﬁguration, will prefer in-

frastructure networks to ad-hoc ones and can sometimes drift oﬀ to another

network when the camera’s transmitter is asleep. The best way to avoid this

is to temporarily conﬁgure the wireless subsystem to only connect to your de-

sired network. If you are using Windows XP, you can do this by right clicking

on the tray icon for your wireless adapter, selecting properties and then go-

ing to the wireless networks tab. Once there, click the advanced button

and the dialog pictured in ﬁgure A.1 will be shown - select the computer-

to-computer (ad-hoc) networks only and uncheck the automatically

connect to non-preferred networks checkbox. Once complete, click the

close button, dismiss the remaining dialogs and your computer should stay

connected to the ad-hoc network. Please note that you will need to reverse

these settings when you want to use this network adapter with conventional

networks.