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Does Powerline Extender Remember SSID?
My PC connects to my router using ethernet, via a pair of powerline extenders. I recently had to change the SSID on my router. On the "Network Connections" page of my Windows 10 settings, the ethernet pane continues to display the old SSID. The problem may only be cosmetic and I don't seem to have any problem establishing an internet connection when I boot the PC, and there's no change in bandwidth since the change in SSID. However, I'd like the pane to show the new (current) SSID, not the obsolete SSID that is no longer relevant. My wife's PC is connected directly to the same router via another ethernet port and displays the new SSID in the ethernet pane of the Network Connections page. We both are using Win10 Home ver 1903. Is the problem related to a need to reset the pair of powerline extenders that provide me with my ethernet connection? I'd rather not bother if the problem is not powerline extender related.
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The SSID relates to the wifi network and has nothing to do with a wired Ethernet connection.
Happilyretired wrote:
On the "Network Connections" page of my Windows 10 settings, the ethernet pane continues to display the old SSID.
That is probably not the SSID but the label that the router gets when Windows sees it.
For some reason, it picks up the router's default SSID and uses that.
Thanks for the reply. I knew that the SSID pertains to wifi communication, and not to ethernet signal identification. Nonetheless, when I originally connected the PC to my router (via ethernet), Windows automatically established the connection and labeled the ethernet pane (and the floating bubble above the internet icon in the system tray) with the name of what was then my router's wifi SSID. Your comment reinforced my perception that the issue is purely a quirk in Windows, cosmetic, and that I can ignore it. Thanks for that reassurance.
However, it doesn't negate the fact that my other PC, running the identical version of Win10, connected to the same router via a second ethernet cable, immediately updated its ethernet pane and tray icon bubble description to display the new SSID. To quote the King of Siam in "The King and I", "tis a puzzlement".
Happilyretired wrote:
However, it doesn't negate the fact that my other PC, running the identical version of Win10, connected to the same router via a second ethernet cable, immediately updated its ethernet pane and tray icon bubble description to display the new SSID.
Same here. Not sure about immediately updated, but it shows the current SSID.
