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Manage wireless networks

Manage wireless networks - Windows Tutorial

From the course: Windows 10: Networking (2018)

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Manage wireless networks

- [Instructor] There's more to wireless networking than simply connecting to networks. You can connect to Hotspots automatically, set data usage caps, and more. You'll find all of this in Settings. Click Start, click Settings, and click Network and Internet. Click Wi-Fi in the left pane. From the Wi-Fi area, you can quickly enable, or disable Wi-Fi. You might want to disable Wi-Fi if your battery power is low, to keep Windows from looking for wireless networks when you don't need one. There are other reasons of course, but there's another option to look at too, and that's Airplane mode. You'll enable Airplane mode when you need to disable all wireless network activity, including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, and cellular. There's new settings here for wireless devices, and Bluetooth devices, so that you can simply select one or the other, or both. You can also perform some of these tasks from the Network icon on the Task Bar. The icon on the left enables and disables Wi-Fi. And the icon next…

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