Wifi - BT hub - dropping out.
I'm hoping for some more help advice from the team. Our current Wifi situation is:
1. BT Infinity package.
2. I have no reason to think it is nothing but 'solid' coming into our house. We are on a new estate and the copper cables coming into the house are laid in pipes right up to the house.
3. In our front room is the BT Hub 5 which is our Wifi provision. Its converts the BT high speed signal on the copper wires incoming to the house directly to Wifi - there is no modem like when there used to be when they first introduced BT Infinity.
And here is the problem. All this works absolutely fine with our iMac. Being an iMac it is a reasonable physical size and I would think the wifi signal would have to drop a fair bit for the iMac not to connect reliably to the BT hub.
But, our Windows Acer laptop does, quite often, drop the connection to our BT hub. In which case it appears to 'look around' and connects to the next best thing which is the BT-fon service (for overseas members this is the wide area wi-fi signal broadcast by BT from the local telephone masts and you can connect to it if you are a customer of theirs). So the Acer connects to that.
When the in house wifi signal is re-established the Acer does not reconnect to it, it stays connected to the BT-fon signal. And there is the problem.
My wife is a member of the local gym, but it is small and getting into classes is difficult, you have to send the gym an email at 7am with your request if you are to stand any chance. So, we have set up Outlook on the laptop to send a 'pre made' message at 7am each morning when we are fast asleep! But, if the laptop is connected to BT-fon it does not send it which leads to disappointment for Mrs yt and earache for Mr yt! I imagine this is linked to a message we see on the laptop when we come down in the morning warning us that we are connected to an un-secure network (Bt-fon) - a soon as I reconnect to our in-house wifi the email message is sent but it is usually too late for Mrs yt to get in a gym class.
What I would like is for the laptop to reconnect back to our in-house wifi when it comes back. Windows 7 by the way.
(I don't know why the wifi signal keeps disappearing in the first place as far as the laptop is concerned - as mentioned above, the iMac never seems to lose the wifi connection, or if it does perhaps because of a problem with the Bt Hub, it automatically reconnects back to it when the wifi signal re-appears).
Sorry for the long post, I like to try and give as much info as possible.