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Wireless - Using Command Prompt to Manage Wireless Profiles

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Command Line

If you are having trouble connecting to Eaglenet-Student with Windows 8, start a command prompt (run as administrator) and run the following command.

netsh wlan delete profile name=eaglenet-student

OR to delete all profiles

netsh wlan delete profile *

Then close all browsers, reconnect to the wireless, and open a browser to sign in to the Meraki splash page.

 

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Some tasks, such as deleting a profile, must be done at the command prompt. To do these tasks, open Command Prompt, and then type the appropriate command from the following table.

 

  • Open Command Prompt by swiping in from the right edge of the screen, tapping Search (or if you're using a mouse, pointing to the upper-right corner of the screen, moving the mouse pointer down, and then clicking Search), entering Command Prompt in the search box, and then tapping or clicking Command Prompt.

 

Task
Instructions

Delete a profile

At the command prompt, type:

netsh wlan delete profile name="ProfileName"

Show all wireless profiles on the PC

At the command prompt, type:

netsh wlan show profiles

Show a security key

At the command prompt, type:

netsh wlan show profile name=“ProfileName” key=clear

Move a network up in the priority list

Connecting to a new network and choosing Connect automatically will place it at the top of the list.

Stop automatically connecting to a network within range

Tap or click the network in the network list, and then click Disconnect.

Stop automatically connecting to a network that's out of range

At the command prompt, type:

netsh wlan set profileparameter name=”ProfileName” connectionmode=manual

 

How Windows determines connection priority

Windows usually connects to networks in this order:

1. Ethernet

2. Wi‑Fi

3. Mobile broadband

When you connect to a new Wi‑Fi network, it’s added to the list, and Windows will connect to that network while it’s in range. If you connect to another Wi‑Fi network while in range of the first network, Windows will prefer the second network over the first one.

Mobile broadband networks are treated differently. If you manually connect to a mobile broadband network when there is a Wi‑Fi network in range, the mobile broadband network is preferred just for that session. The next time you’re in range of both networks, the Wi‑Fi network is preferred. This is because mobile broadband networks typically are metered.

If you want to force your PC to prefer a mobile broadband network over Wi‑Fi, tap or click the Wi‑Fi network in the list of networks, and then click Disconnect. Windows won’t automatically connect to that Wi‑Fi network.

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And of course, you can

netsh wlan disconnect

And include the interface optionally, for multiple interfaces. Additionally, interesting things can be seen with

netsh wlan dump

This is nice because you can

netsh wlan dump > myconfig.txt

on one machine and then later on another machine

netsh exec myconfig.txt

 

 
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Category: Wireless - Windows 8
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