Patent ID: 8174998

Claim:
A network connecting apparatus to wirelessly communicate with a base station, comprising: an attribution table in which relations of targets and attributions of the targets are registered; an attribution determining section configured to specify a target when detecting a request of a wireless communication associated with the target, and refer to said attribution table to determine the attribution of the target; a connection setting table in which relations of the attributions and available connection settings are registered; a connection setting section configured to change a connection setting based on the target attribution by referring to said connection setting table; and a connecting section configured to execute a connecting process for the wireless communication based on the connection setting, such that responsive to the connecting process performed by the network connecting apparatus, the base station is to determine whether a connection from the network connecting apparatus to the base station is permissible, and such that the network connecting apparatus itself does not make this determination, the network connecting apparatus being a terminal, wherein at least one of said attribution table and said connection setting table exists in an external storage unit, and wherein said connecting section performs the connecting process for the radio communication based on an initial connection setting which does not depend on the target attribution, when said external storage unit must be accessed due to the wireless communication, and accesses said external storage unit.