Dell Latitude E7240 and Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260

Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260 fails to notify Windows 7 when the SSID changes. The result is that the wireless interface retains the previous and possibly invalid IP addresses and other settings. The latest driver, A11, only a few days old, isn’t helpful at all.

I usually avoid installing Intel’s own utility for managing wireless connections, as I feel this should be left in the capable hands of the operating system and the driver. Maybe I should think twice about that.

The current solution is to manually force Windows into releasing and renewing the IP addresses after switching to a different SSID.

@echo off

ipconfig /release
ipconfig /release6

ipconfig /renew
ipconfig /renew6