"Xfinitywifi" vs home network problem

My wifi connection changes from my home network to "xfinitywifi" every time my Mac Pro goes to sleep or restarts. This change is accompanied by a popup to sell me xfinitywifi service. A soon as I select my home network the popup disappears. How can I lock the Safari browser to use only my home network?

You need to get the Wi-Fi turned off in the Xfinity modem/router. You are asking for trouble when you have two Wi-Fi networks within proximity of each other. Also, I believe on the Mac, you can set a preferred network and have it connect to that. You should also be able to forget the Xfinity Wi-Fi network so it won't automatically connect to it.

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In the end I gave up on Netprotect plus and installed Kaspersky on the main PC, leaving Netprotect plus on the rest of the network. Kaspersky works perfectly. The other machines on the network can read and copy files from the machine running Kaspersky, which is what I needed. The reverse operation does not work, ie I cannot open and read files on the machines running Netprotect, but this does not cause me any problems. Incidentally, BT support were unable to sort out the problem!!

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It really seemed the solution I needed, made alot sense. But unfortenately it wasn't, I got them still on a reserved IP address in DHCP mode, but yesterday evening it happened again. I had to reboot my router and after that it worked again, I also checked this time the dhcp lease time, and I got it on default (0) which is 1 day maybe that can be it?
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Hello, relatively new mac user here. I have two mac's, a power mac g5 and an imac, both are running the same family version of Leopard. I have a printer setup on the power mac and want to share it with the imac.
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It sounds like you have everything setup properly so far.
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Problems browsing on home network on my macbook pro and Air

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Go into your System Preferences > Network Advanced>TC/IP and turn off IPv6
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I have 3 PCs on my home network:
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Running multiple router behind router can be tricky and may be the cause of your dropouts if you don't have it configured properly.
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My iphone 5 does not remember the password of my home network. Well this is ot the case with my ipad. The wifi gets disconnected every 2 minutes. Its not any problem with my wifi router as my ipad and other devices work fine. So how do i fix this problem?

Well my iphone 5 does not remember my home network. This is not a problem with the wifi router as the ipad works absolutely fine. The wifi loses it connection in just 2 minutes. So could you please fix this problem.

Not unless the modem is causing a problem.
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