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Wifi spontaneously connects to external access points

XGwolf36
By XGwolf36
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I open my laptop, at home, and I find, it's not connected to my router or extender,

it is connected to 'Telstra Air' or 'Fon Wifi'. 

Telstra is a telecommunications company in Australia.
Both of those SSIDs are a public Wifi service.

 

Here's a simplistic language description:

-I have never ever told my laptop to connect to those SSIDs
-I don't want to be connected to those SSIDs (not sure how paranoid I should be about security)
-My laptop (apparently only while closed) spontaneously connects to those SSIDs (not sure - maybe I'm misunderstanding)
-I want to tell my laptop to never even go near those SSIDs

-How on earth do I instruct my idiot computer to do that?

CPU Intel Core i3 4170, Motherboard MSI H97-G43M, RAM 8GB DDR3 1600MHz Kingston Hyper X Genesis, GPU Asus Radeon R9270X, Case Bitfenix Neos Window

Storage Corsair 60GB SSD and Segate Baracuda 1TB, PSU Silverstone 500W 80+ B, Display Benq GW2760HS, Cooling Stock CPU Cooler OS Windows 10 Pro 64bit

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i don't know what os you use but on windows 7 you can set a preferred network

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Windows 10 somewhere in its settings has an option for "connect to recommended networks", you could try turning this off.

Router:  Intel N100 (pfSense) WiFi6: Zyxel NWA210AX (1.7Gbit peak at 160Mhz)
WiFi5: Ubiquiti NanoHD OpenWRT (~500Mbit at 80Mhz) Switches: Netgear MS510TXUP, MS510TXPP, GS110EMX
ISPs: Zen Full Fibre 900 (~930Mbit down, 115Mbit up) + Three 5G (~800Mbit down, 115Mbit up)
Upgrading Laptop/Desktop CNVIo WiFi 5 cards to PCIe WiFi6e/7

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