Airport connects automatically even though I don't know the WPA password!

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Hello

This is a very strange one. My Airport sometimes automatically connects to a wifi network (called 'virgin broadband') for which I don't know the password! This is very useful as I often can't connect to my own Airport Express wifi from my garden office, so this 'imposter' network gives me the internet access I need.

But often it doesn't automatically connect and when I try to connect manually, it asks for a WPA Personal password - which I don't know, and which my computer seems to forget!

To make matters even more confusing, when it has automatically connected (as right now, for instance!), I can't find out what the password is. I select 'virgin broadband' in 'System Preferences - Network', select 'Edit'... and the 'password' box is completely empty!

Can anyone tell me what is going on, and how I might discover the password? One final thing - my own internet provider is Virgin Broadband - is it at all possible that my Airport Express is somehow still pushing out a wifi signal under the generic 'Virgin Broadband' name, as well as the wifi account I have configured myself - and that that is the signal my Airport picks up sporadically?!

Any help very gratefully accepted!
 

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