Network priority

Question

One of my computers keep connecting to the extender but it can not find the main hub provider. I followed instruction included in a Microsoft article but I have been unable to give priority to the main network.

I started cmd as administrator and as per article I typed: "netsh wlan show profiles" and it showed three which included the main one as second. Then, again as per instructions, I tried to change the priority by: "netsh wlan set profileorder name=”the name of the network″ interface=”Wi-Fi” priority=1". Reply: There is no such wireless interface in the system. This is despite the fact that it was present under number 2 on the show profiles!

Further, it stated that command should follow the example: set profileorder name="profile1" interface="wireless Network Connection" priority=1.

I followed this example with the same result - There is no such wireless interface in the system!

How do I proceed please?

Answer 1

The interface name is "WiFi 3" not the 4 "permutations" that you've mentioned.

Answer 2

There are a lot of repetitions with slight changes following either the article or the response example of the cmd .

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19045.3570]

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C:\Windows\system32>netsh wlan show profiles

Profiles on interface WiFi 3:

Group policy profiles (read only)

---

<None> 

User profiles

---

All User Profile     : TP-LINK\_FC7F46 

All User Profile     : TALKTALKB1B956 

All User Profile     : Build 

C:\Windows\system32>netsh wlan set profileorder name="TALKTALKB1B956" interface="Wi-Fi" priority=1

There is no such wireless interface on the system.

C:\Windows\system32>netsh wlan set profileorder name="TALKTALKB1B956" interface="Wi-Fi" priority=1

There is no such wireless interface on the system.

C:\Windows\system32>netsh wlan set profileorder nam="TALKTALKB1B956"interface="Wi-Fi" priority=1

One or more parameters for the command are not correct or missing.

Usage: set profileorder [name=]<string> [interface=]<string> [priority=]<integer>

Parameters:

Tag           Value 

name        - Name of the User profile whose priority is to be changed. 

interface   - Name of the interface which has this profile configured. 

priority    - The new priority of the User profile. 

Remarks:

Set the preference order of a wireless network profile on an interface. 

All three parameters are required. 

Only the order of User profiles can be changed. Group policy profiles 

are read only. Group policy profiles always have higher precedence over 

User profiles. 

Parameter priority specifies the new position of the profile in the 

preferred profile list. If it is 1, the profile will be moved to the 

first position in the User profile list. 

Examples:

set profileorder name="profile1" interface="Wireless Network Connection" 

priority=1 

C:\Windows\system32>set profileorder name="TALKTALKB1B956" interface="Wireless Network Connection" priority=1

C:\Windows\system32>set profileorder name="TALKTALKB1B956" interface="Wireless Network Connection" priority=1

C:\Windows\system32>netsh wlan set profileorder name="TALKTALKB1B956" interface="Wireless Network Connection" priority=1

There is no such wireless interface on the system.

C:\Windows\system32>netsh wlan set profileorder name=''TALKTALKB1B956'' interface=''Wireless Network Connection'' priority=1

One or more parameters for the command are not correct or missing.

Usage: set profileorder [name=]<string> [interface=]<string> [priority=]<integer>

Parameters:

Tag           Value 

name        - Name of the User profile whose priority is to be changed. 

interface   - Name of the interface which has this profile configured. 

priority    - The new priority of the User profile. 

Remarks:

Set the preference order of a wireless network profile on an interface. 

All three parameters are required. 

Only the order of User profiles can be changed. Group policy profiles 

are read only. Group policy profiles always have higher precedence over 

User profiles. 

Parameter priority specifies the new position of the profile in the 

preferred profile list. If it is 1, the profile will be moved to the 

first position in the User profile list. 

Examples:

set profileorder name="profile1" interface="Wireless Network Connection" 

priority=1 

C:\Windows\system32>netsh wlan set profileorder name=''TALKTALKB1B95'' interface=''Wireless Network Connection'' priority=1

One or more parameters for the command are not correct or missing.

Usage: set profileorder [name=]<string> [interface=]<string> [priority=]<integer>

Parameters:

Tag           Value 

name        - Name of the User profile whose priority is to be changed. 

interface   - Name of the interface which has this profile configured. 

priority    - The new priority of the User profile. 

Remarks:

Set the preference order of a wireless network profile on an interface. 

All three parameters are required. 

Only the order of User profiles can be changed. Group policy profiles 

are read only. Group policy profiles always have higher precedence over 

User profiles. 

Parameter priority specifies the new position of the profile in the 

preferred profile list. If it is 1, the profile will be moved to the 

first position in the User profile list. 

Examples:

set profileorder name="profile1" interface="Wireless Network Connection" 

priority=1 

C:\Windows\system32>^A

'☺' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

operable program or batch file.

C:\Windows\system32>

C:\Windows\system32>

C:\Windows\system32>C:\Windows\system32>netsh wlan set profileorder name=''TALKTALKB1B956'' interface=''Wireless Network Connection'' priority=1

'C:\Windows\system32' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

operable program or batch file.

C:\Windows\system32>One or more parameters for the command are not correct or missing.

'One' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

operable program or batch file.

C:\Windows\system32>

C:\Windows\system32>Usage: set profileorder [name=]<string> [interface=]<string> [priority=]<integer>C:\Windows\system32>netsh wlan set profileorder name=''TALKTALKB1B956'' interface=''Wireless Network Connection'' priority=1

The system cannot find the file specified.

C:\Windows\system32>One or more parameters for the command are not correct or missing.

'One' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

operable program or batch file.

Answer 3

I based it on the commands that you sent here since if you would look closely, the one you have is the curly quotation marks. This might be copied from a site.

May you screenshot the result if you do the "netsh wlan show profiles" command?

Answer 4

Hello rianvillareal,

Many thanks for taking the time to reply. I am a little bit confused as I can only find (") one type of quotation marks on the keyboard. If I use two singles (') they are too far apart to look like quotes. On this text the ones I used look like the straight ones you recommend. I typed it again and get the same comment back.

Answer 5

Hi PaulTaylorOB, hope you're doing well. I’m Ian, and I’m happy to help you today.

I think the possible reason is that you are using the wrong quotation marks in the command. You need to use straight quotation marks ("), not curly ones (“ or ”)

This is a user-to-user support forum and I am a fellow user.

I hope this helps, but please let me know if you need anything else.