Wireless Manager??

Hi,
I've just bought a Linksys WRT54GC portable router and "installed" it at home (I still haven't gotten around making it a secure network, but I live in a place where there aren't many computers much less with wireless) with a dynamic IP.

At work I have a different network, with a static IP and security enabled. I have used the Intel ProSet to "manage" my wireless connections but it doesn't work. I have to manually change the configuration on my PC to run the other network.

What I want is a software that would not only recognize the networks around me but also connect succesfully to it without me having to do any tweaking. Would anyone know a program that would allow me to do this or must I configure my router with a static IP (same as work) so I don't have to manually change the configuration every time I get back home???

 

proset should do it.

i regularly connect to 3 different networks and it connects automatically.

do you have profiles created for the different LANs?

 

Yes, I do, and I have used it, but it doesn't work. I have to manually go to Properties > TCP/IP > Properties and change (if I'm at home) to obtain IP automatically and if I'm at work put a determined IP. I thought it would work but it doesn't.

 

I am not sure you can change between static IP and dynamic IP 'automatically' using the same NIC.

If you connect hard wired at work and wireless at home you should be able to configure each card differently. Also depending on what IP range your work assings you could try to distriubte the same range at home

Perhaps you can convince your work IT to distribute (DHCP) addressed based on a MAC address of your machine (that way only your mahine will get one). That should alleviate if the IT department is concerned about other unauthorized machines receiving a dynamic IP adrress.

Good Luck.

 

Hmm....I don't think they would, they are very thick. I have gotten away with some things (I have a Dell while pretty much 95% of the company has an over-priced IBM, gained restricted access they didn't think I should have even though my boss said I should, etc.) but this is a major pullout for me. I guess I'll have to configure the router to assign the wireless network with a static IP....then again, they did tell me that IBM has a software that would allow you to manage your wireless connections flawlessly...but they told me it only works on IBMs (is it true??? I really don't think so, but then again, I'm rather new at wireless), hence bashed my Dell...

I have a specific IP, I don't have any range whatsoever, they use the IP to limit your access to the internet and when somebody uses my IP (for some reason, someone else chose my IP) I get disconnected and Windows tells me somebody is using it. I think if I had a range of IPs to choose from, this wouldn't happen.

Thanks, anyway. Hope someone else can give me more insight on this.

 

Bugger MAC address is very secure too bad would not hurt to ask - yes I think http://www.pc.ibm.com/ca/think/thinkvantagetech/accessconnections.html that is what your IT department may be using. So if that is available there is hope someone else may know .........but it may also be cost prohibitive ........

good luck

 

Yes, I know MAC address is very secure but I think they don't use that mostly because they haven't found a way to restrict internet access through that, or maybe not as much as they want to. Who knows..! Anyway, checked out the link, and yes, that's what I was talking about!!! That's exactly what I'm looking for!! But it only supports IBMs, right?? Do you know of another similar program that does work on any notebook??

 

Maybe ....... http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-6230-0.html?forumID=89&threadID=174796&start=0 Google is a wonderful tool

 

Hey, thanks. I'll have to try it back at home, I believe I have to register since it seems I can't download it right now and since I'm unable to check my hotmail/yahoo accounts here. It must wait. But your help is appreciated, thanks a lot.

BTW, I can't google at work....it's a shame.

 

Wow Big Brother is indeed watching ....s'ok been on both sides of the fence (Admin and user) .......but exceptions should be made (and I have made some in my day) ...anyway good luck .....

 

Yeah! But that would be the pinaccle of preferences towards me in this company (lol). I'm not that popular in this company due to many cultural constraints and some people's attitude. I'm new at this company and I hold a mid-level managing position...I'm fairly "young" (26 and a HALF! lol) and I look somewhat younger (about 23-ish), I have access to some restricted things that people that may as well have more than 5 years in the company don't have access to, I got away buying a Dell through the company while everybody else gets IBM (about 95% are IBM users) without having a choice, I'm fairly payed, I get to travel, have medical insurance, got access to the internet (limited though), my own desk, get paid first before most people, etc....and since people here are jealous by nature, they tend to dislike me....hence the troubles I have with the IT department (limiting my access to information, for example) even though I have good credentials, which fuels even more the antagonism, lol. Guess I'll have to wait a little more to ask my boss for unlimited access to the internet.

 

The 'new guy' - yeah that can be hard especially the new guy with all the perks. Take it (from what it is worth ahaha free advice) from someone who has been in IT almost as many years as you have been alive … Honesty – good work ethic – wiliness to step up to plate and get things done. Never be too quick to take credit (it’s a team thing) – and be proactive if you are at fault (we are all Human) - Co-workers should come around as you earn their respect and if not – the fault and bigotry is there’s and it may be time to look elsewhere ;-) ...whoa getting off topic here - slow day at the office .....

 

Lol, thanks for the advice. Same here (slow day). I'm not in IT, it's just that I'm not as computer illiterate as most here (I've been around computers since I was 9) hence I have my brushes with them from time to time (they say one thing, I say other, they disagree, they change their minds, they bash my Dell, I bash their IBM, lol...you know the drill). Will definitely try your suggestion posted a few posts before once I get home.

 

Hey, Daacon. I tried it and it worked fine, now if only I could find a script that would turn off the firewall too, lol.

 

Excellent !! .....if only all your battles could be solved with a download

 

Hmmm....maybe i sang victory a little too soon. It always gives me an error that it couldn't change it and I still have to configure it manually....it's a bothersome. I wonder why no one but IBM has thought of a connection manager program. I'm pretty sure it's useful for many people. Let's hope someone here knows of one.

 

Bugger the highs and lows .....IBM has one I would be willing to bet Dell has one

Might have to head over to their site and hit some of the forms. It may be a coperate tool (cost prohibitive).

Good Luck.................dy

 

Checked out Dell but nothing... I find it odd that no one has made a managing connections software but Intel ....