Were we bloggin about wireless setups?
How many times has this happened to you?
You are at work, or at home, or at a convention, or a buddy's house, and you need to access YET ANOTHER ssid on a wireless net, and you end up having to change your browser settings, your SSID, your wireless channel number, your home page, your printer settings, again and again and again.
By default, Windows does not make it easy to keep multiple profiles of multiple wireless setups. And often, it requires you to reboot in order to make the new settings active.
Wouldn't it be nice to have a utility that keeps these profiles for you and forces Windows to behave and not ask for reboots when they are not strictly necessary?
For years I've used a product called NetSwitcher for this purpose. The software is now out of beta and it works. It also costs $20 or so. But if you want a product that has a proven track record, buy it. I was on the beta testing team and I can tell you it's fully fleshed out and works great for this purpose. I routinely visit 18 drugstores, each with a different access point IP, each with different printers on the network, etc. So I have at least 18 profiles set up in NetSwitcher.
Another issue came up this weekend on my wife's computer. They have, naturally, a very secure network where she works and she really didn't want me changing any of those settings. NetSwitcher would have been an appropriate product to adopt the wireless environment at our house without messing with the settings she needs at work. Go to the website and look at the screen shots. Pretty nifty.
Now comes something called NetSetMan, a new application from the collection at Portable Freeware which is one of my favorite sites for new Open Source programming.
Here's a screen shot:
This free utility appears to allow up to six network setup configurations. Let the testing begin!
You are at work, or at home, or at a convention, or a buddy's house, and you need to access YET ANOTHER ssid on a wireless net, and you end up having to change your browser settings, your SSID, your wireless channel number, your home page, your printer settings, again and again and again.
By default, Windows does not make it easy to keep multiple profiles of multiple wireless setups. And often, it requires you to reboot in order to make the new settings active.
Wouldn't it be nice to have a utility that keeps these profiles for you and forces Windows to behave and not ask for reboots when they are not strictly necessary?
For years I've used a product called NetSwitcher for this purpose. The software is now out of beta and it works. It also costs $20 or so. But if you want a product that has a proven track record, buy it. I was on the beta testing team and I can tell you it's fully fleshed out and works great for this purpose. I routinely visit 18 drugstores, each with a different access point IP, each with different printers on the network, etc. So I have at least 18 profiles set up in NetSwitcher.
Another issue came up this weekend on my wife's computer. They have, naturally, a very secure network where she works and she really didn't want me changing any of those settings. NetSwitcher would have been an appropriate product to adopt the wireless environment at our house without messing with the settings she needs at work. Go to the website and look at the screen shots. Pretty nifty.
Now comes something called NetSetMan, a new application from the collection at Portable Freeware which is one of my favorite sites for new Open Source programming.
Here's a screen shot:
This free utility appears to allow up to six network setup configurations. Let the testing begin!
posted by Michael Moore @ 4:45 PM
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