I purchased a wireless dlink router (di-524) just two days ago. After reading about wireless security I disabled ssid brodcast, changed the ssid from default to something not guessable, enabled 128bit wep encription and created a nice key. This is all fine and in the computer with the wireless card I am able to conect after creating a profile with the info. The problem is that every time I restart the computer, I must go into the dlink utility, and double click my profile in order to connect. It is my moms computer and she finds it a nusance to have to manualy conect all the time.

I would like to know if there is a way that I can set it so that the connection is made automaticaly after every reboot. I did read something about leting windows manage the connection and to check an option to connect to nonprefered networks or simular, however I have two problems with this idea. One is that if I let windows manage it, the text box where I type my wep key is too short as my key is 26 characters long. Secondly I cannot bring up the utility to get connection statistics if windows is manageing my wireless connections.

Can somebody sugest a way that I can configure moms computer (the one with the card) so that it will automaticaly connect on restart.