So in a lot of situations this might be sufficient. So I’m not saying authentication should succeed, but the SSID should be “online”. Meaning you are actually in the physical location where the Wireless LAN is supposed to be. Ok, my title is a bit misleading, I think you can only edit this one if the SSID is actually accessible. In the network and sharing center click “set up a new…”Īfter entering some basic parameters you can choose “Change connection settings” before clicking close. Just before finishing the creation of a new network:
You can now access the advanced settings in the followings ways:ġ. However, there’s other possibilities which make it less bad. After verifying on my own fresh install I noticed that this was indeed the case. In some of the comments I read that in the final version the explorer.exe shell:: command did no longer worked. A while ago I posted a workaround to manage the more advanced settings of wireless networks: Win 8 Client (Dev Preview): Manage Wireless Networks, Where Art Thou?
