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Airport connects automatically even though I don't know the WPA password!
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<blockquote data-quote="karaokeme" data-source="post: 1165528" data-attributes="member: 58544"><p>Hello</p><p></p><p>This is a very strange one. My Airport <em>sometimes</em> 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. </p><p></p><p>But often it <u>doesn't</u> 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! </p><p></p><p>To make matters even more confusing, when it <u>has</u> 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!</p><p></p><p>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?! </p><p></p><p>Any help very gratefully accepted!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="karaokeme, post: 1165528, member: 58544"] Hello This is a very strange one. My Airport [I]sometimes[/I] 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 [U]doesn't[/U] 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 [U]has[/U] 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! [/QUOTE]
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