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genie conflicts when using broadcomm wireless utility but not Msoft utility
I have a broadcomm wireless 2.4ghz card in a laptop, it comes with the broadcomm wireless utility v5.100.82.130 that allows me to select the wireless router to connect to and MSofts wireless utility is smart enough to be disabled so that it doesn't interfere with my wireless utility. However, Netgear genie is not smart enough since it keeps trying to connect to my wireless router even though I remove it from the netgear list, but on the next refresh is shows up again. Thus, Netgear genie and the Broadcomm wireless utility compete to control the connection to the wireless router since they connect/disconnect every two seconds as it bounces back and forth. There is currently no way in netgear genie for me just to use it as a tool to monitor the hardware, other wireless connections but not as a tool to connect to the wireless network, and just use the networkmap feature. So to get control back, I need to exit genie totally so that it doesn't show up in the system tray, and then the broadcomm wireless utility will work correctly.
Now if I'm not using the wireless card in the laptop and turn it off, but use the lan network, genie will work and let me monitor the network map
I have the latest version. Can this be fixed in the next release of genie?
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