Good Wireless Connection Manager?

Hi,

I frequent a handful of wireless networks: my home, my office, my
brother's, etc.

I've tried a few wireless Connection Managers: Windows', Intel's,
Boingo, and T-Mobile's --and so far I haven't found any that will let me
store specific IP config info for each connection.

For example, at home and work, I have the networks configured for my
laptop to have a pre-determined IP. But there are other networks that
assign IPs dynamically.

The problem I'm having is using Window's TCP/IP config you can assign
only one IP address, or automatic IP retrieval, or make a list of IPs
butt not specify which networks they belong to, so each time I try to
connect to my home or office networks it takes well over a minute for my
laptop to search for an IP address before it gives up an chooses the
pre-assigned one.

Any software that can overcome this? Or am I overlooking an already
existing solution?

On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 23:45:13 -0700, Byron <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I've tried a few wireless Connection Managers: Windows', Intel's,
>Boingo, and T-Mobile's --and so far I haven't found any that will let me
>store specific IP config info for each connection.

Try:
http://www.netswitcher.com
I think one of my laptops has about 35 configurations, one for each
customers network, VPN, SMTP mail server, printers, etc.


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Byron <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> I've tried a few wireless Connection Managers: Windows', Intel's,
> Boingo, and T-Mobile's --and so far I haven't found any that will let me
> store specific IP config info for each connection.

> For example, at home and work, I have the networks configured for my
> laptop to have a pre-determined IP. But there are other networks that
> assign IPs dynamically.

I specifically use Boingo for the IP setting.
I am DHCP on various connections, but I need a static IP on one WAP.
I have version 1.4 build(1241) which has an "IP Settings" tab when I edit a
profile. It defaults to dhcp.

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On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 18:44:28 +0000 (UTC),
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>> For example, at home and work, I have the networks configured for my
>> laptop to have a pre-determined IP. But there are other networks that
>> assign IPs dynamically.
>
>I specifically use Boingo for the IP setting.
>I am DHCP on various connections, but I need a static IP on one WAP.
>I have version 1.4 build(1241) which has an "IP Settings" tab when I edit a
>profile. It defaults to dhcp.

Do you happen to know if it is still necessary, in Windows 98, to
manually change the TCP/IP settings and reboot when changing from
Static to Dynamic IP?
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David Quinton <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Do you happen to know if it is still necessary, in Windows 98, to
> manually change the TCP/IP settings and reboot when changing from
> Static to Dynamic IP?

That's too long ago ;-)
I do recall instances where the message about "you need to reboot" could be
handled by disable/enable on the NIC. I don't remember if that was Win98.

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