Programmatically reconnect to wifi network

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Published on 2009-12-01T15:53:33Z Indexed on 2010/03/13 16:05 UTC
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Sometimes I work with frequently-dropping wifi connections.

I can either reconnect manually or wait some time (varies from few seconds to few minutes) before windows attempts to reconnect. Is there a simple way to trigger reconnect immediately after the connection was dropped?

Bonus question: In this particular case I'd blame hardware, but how can I diagnose the reason of dropping connection in general?

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