Can I automatically connect to the strongest wifi network under Windows 7?

I was looking to do this myself just now. What you want to do is set the "roaming aggressiveness" of you wifi adapter. You should be able to do this by

  1. going to network and sharing center
  2. select change adapter settings
  3. select your wifi adapter and select properties
  4. click the "configure" button on the popup window (network tab)
  5. click the advanced tab
  6. if roaming aggressiveness is there, set it to "highest.

Your laptop should now seek out the strongest signal.


Not that I am aware, and if it were to work like that, it could be potentially very dangerous.

If I mis understood you, and you mean simply connect to whichever connection is strongest at any given moment from a pre defined list, again, this is not how it works.

Windows should automatically always connect to the strongest signal at the time it is turned on and will not switch until the connection is lost/very weak.

One of the easiest solutions I can think of is to quickly toggle wireless off/on when you want to switch but this is more of a workaround than a good solution.