Network 3?

[Sportsman]

My PC is connected via a Lan connection to a livebox. The connection was always just named "network"

I noticed this evening this has changed to "network 3", described as an open network and sharing centre.My wife's PC is connected to the same livebox in the same way and her connection is still just named "network"

I am running Win7 64bit

Is this likely to be significant?

[kirisute]

not at all!

chances are you've simple connected and reconnected 3 times to different networks as your been changing the config etc of your network.

basically windows just makes names for new networks its connected to as it goes along!

you can rename it whatever you wish: goto network sharing centre and click on the little house to rename the network (if your in windows 7)

 

basically every time you reset your router to defaults, create a new network, etc then windows will create a list of the networks its connected to...they just change incrementally.

so I presume you've reset your router or configured your main network/ reformatted a couple of times etc to get to network 3!

 

think my unit at home is on network 12 or something! LOL

Edited November 5, 2014 by kirisute

[Sportsman]

thanks again kirie

[corydoras]

My PC is connected via a Lan connection to a livebox. The connection was always just named "network"

I noticed this evening this has changed to "network 3", described as an open network and sharing centre.My wife's PC is connected to the same livebox in the same way and her connection is still just named "network"

I am running Win7 64bit

Is this likely to be significant?

The joys of the livebox

[n4lly]

Same as. I'm on Network4, think i was the 4th to connect to this network ? works fine