Static and Dynamic IP address on wireless card

Question

I have an Inspiron 6400 notebook with a wireless adapter 1390. At work I connect to an Access Point which requires an static IP address. When I get home, my wireless home network runs DHCP and assigns dynamically the IP addresses so I have to reconfigure my wireless adapter to accept the assigned IP, deleting my work network IP address in the process. Neddless to say, the following day I reverse the process by reassigning the static IP address to the adapter.... until I get home at night. There is an alternate configuration tab for NIC cards but it is missing for wireless adapters. Is there a solution for my daily routine of assigning and removing static IP addreseses?

RKinner · Answer

I think we can make a pair of .bat files that you can put on your desktop that would do the job.  Need some information tho first.  Can you do this when you are using your static IP address?   Start, Run, cmd, OK to bring up the black cmd window.  Type (with Enter after each bold line):     NETSH interface ip show ipaddress > c:\junk.txt   ipconfig /all  >> c:\junk.txt   notepad C:\junk.txt   Then copy the text in notepad over to a Reply.  If you are worried about giving out your IP addresses over the internet feel free to replace them with dummies like A.B.C.D and A.B.C.E.  Also replace your domain name if it shows up.    Ron

Henry22 · Answer

The following text is what I got:

The Routing and Remote Access Service is not currently running on the local machine.
Please use 'net start remoteaccess' on the machine to start the service.

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : MIS-01

Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :

Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcast

IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-Card

Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-16-CE-57-A6-FC

Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No

IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.100.34

Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.100.254

DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : A.B.C.D

A.B.C.E

jmwills · Answer

Google for a program named netswitcher.  You can load both profiles with that program and then use the program to change your saved settings.

mombodog · Answer

https://windowsheaven.wordpress.com/2006/07/08/how-to-create-multiple-network-profiles-on-windows-xp2000/   never tried this, looks easy.

jmwills · Answer

Nice link.

mombodog · Answer

'Even a pig gets an acorn every once in a while' unknown author :smileywink:  I get lucky sometimes using google.

mombodog · Answer

We learn something new every day, Thanks for posting back about your success, we do not always get these. Have a Great Day :smileyhappy:

Henry22 · Answer

Very nice link! It works like a charm. thanks

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