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 Subject :Windows 8.1 does not show broadband-meshnet in the wireless list.. 2015-01-15- 18:11:20 
KJ6HSH
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Hi, I have an active node and am able to see it in the wireless device list using

Win7 & MacOSX, but not Win 8.1.  Any thoughts why it does not appear please?


Jay, KJ6HSH
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 Subject :Re:Windows 8.1 does not show broadband-meshnet in the wireless list.. 2015-01-15- 19:08:10 
KG6JEI
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It's a Microsoft design.

My phone won't let me paste a link but Google: windows 8.1 ADHOC not showing and you will find the details about it.
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 Subject :Re:Re:Windows 8.1 does not show broadband-meshnet in the wireless list.. 2015-01-17- 02:50:44 
N4SV
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I didn't realize till I saw this post that Windows 8.1 does not show AD-HOC networks any longer. From the various blogs and posts it seems it was a design decision by Microsoft, a decision they have been getting beaten up about since 8.1 was released. While there are purported workarounds out there, involving complicated command line configurations, a real "fix" by Microsoft is not in sight. I just finished a chat session with Microsoft support and they confirmed this issue is known (how could it not be) and it is "a high priority" to fix!? Please Microsoft, do you thinks us fools? A feature that has worked in every version of Windows up to version 8, and now broken in 8.1 and known about since the release of 8.1, and it was a "design decision" and no fix is available yet? The "fix" will probably be to wait for Windows 10, as there are many other things wrong with the Wi-Fi implementation in Windows 8.1 that need to be fixed as well. The easy way to at least see those AD-HOC networks is to use the "netsh wlan show networks", but connecting to them requires additional netsh commands, readily searchable as Conrad has indicated. Good luck.
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KJ6HSH
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Subject :Re:Re:Re:Windows 8.1 does not show broadband-meshnet in the wireless list

Yes, following conrad's suggestion, it now sees the network. I read that MS did this to mitigate network slow-down. (?)
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KJ6HSH
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Subject :Re:Re:Re:Windows 8.1 does not show broadband-meshnet in the wireless list

Yes, following conrad's suggestion, it now sees the network. I read that MS did this to mitigate network slow-down. (?)
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 Subject :Re:Re:Re:Windows 8.1 does not show broadband-meshnet in the wireless l.. 2015-01-17- 05:31:27 
KJ6HSH
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Subject :Re:Re:Re:Windows 8.1 does not show broadband-meshnet in the wireless list

Yes, following conrad's suggestion, it now sees the network. I read that MS did this to mitigate network slow-down. (?)
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