I have OSX lion 10.7.2 and want this pos to automatically connect to my linksysy router

Question

I have an early 2011 Macbook Pro with OSX Lion (10.7.2) and I want this POS to connect to my linksys router automatically just like all my other computers (Vista) do. I have to join network EVERY time I want to go online. Any ideas? My system prefs, network has my network set up as join automatically but it NEVER does.

Answer 1

Turn off the "hidden network" feature of your router, it serves no purpose as hackers can see it regardless if it's hidden or not.
Mac's won't automatically connect to hidden networks, only upon a reboot it will, it's so the Mac isn't going around saying "joe network are you there?" all the time as thats a security issue.
Follow these Wifi security steps
Setting up a wifi router
there is really only one secure way left to make sure your not hacked. WEP and WPA are both cracked. A too small of a password is easily brute forced by new graphics based cracking software and worldwide botnets.
1: Update your router firmware. For Airport it's easy, just use Software Update and/or update in Airport Utility.
2: WPA2 (AES) Personal easier (or Enterprise)
3: 2 - Random 20+ letter, number, character, symbol, case passwords. One for the Admin use of the router only, kept off the machine and locked in a safe, the other for Internet Access only used on all devices.  A password this strong will take until the next Big Bang to crack, perhaps a quarter of that as technology improves. Certainly not in your lifetime.
4: MAC address filtering and invisible networks are no match for hackers. Don't bother.
5: Rotate the Internet Access password to keep people you don't want back on, from coming back. Once they have the password it's logged permanently into their machines. They could delete it, but most don't know they can or won't.
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