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Neil
I have a Dell Inspiron 600m with a Dell TrueMobile 1300
wireless card. It is 802.11 b and g compatible.
At home I have a Linksys 802.11g wireless router and a
ISP with no static IP address so I need to set the
wireless network card to 'DHCP assigned IP address'. The
system works great as long as I use DHCP assigned IP
addresses.
At work, I have an 802.11a wireless router. In order to
access the network printers at work, I need the wireless
card configured to a specific IP address. If I allow
DHCP assignment, I can access the network and the
internet but I have no use of the network printers.
As it stands, I have to manually configure the wirless
card each time I go to work (which means typing in each
number for the IP address, subnet mask, etc) in order to
use printers.
When I get home, I click 'DHCP Assigned IP Address' and
the manually configured numbers disappear from the main
screen.
Which brings me to my question....
There is a second tab that appears in the
Windows 'Wireless Network Connection Properties' dialogue
box. The second tab is titled 'Alternate
Configuration'. It appears when I have selected 'Obtain
IP address automatically'.
Even if I fill out the 'Alternate Configuration' with the
details of my workplace's IP address,etc, I can still not
access the printers at work.
I assume that the computer is using the default Auto IP
address, since it has no reason not to. Is there a way
to force the computer to use the 'Alternate
Configuration' at home then switch back to the auto
setting at home?
Am I misunderstanding the purpose of the 'Alternate
Configuration' settings?
Or.... do you know of any other solutions? I have
already tried to assign the same IP address to my home
router as the IP address at work but my home router will
not accept that range of address.
Thanks in advance,
Neil
wireless card. It is 802.11 b and g compatible.
At home I have a Linksys 802.11g wireless router and a
ISP with no static IP address so I need to set the
wireless network card to 'DHCP assigned IP address'. The
system works great as long as I use DHCP assigned IP
addresses.
At work, I have an 802.11a wireless router. In order to
access the network printers at work, I need the wireless
card configured to a specific IP address. If I allow
DHCP assignment, I can access the network and the
internet but I have no use of the network printers.
As it stands, I have to manually configure the wirless
card each time I go to work (which means typing in each
number for the IP address, subnet mask, etc) in order to
use printers.
When I get home, I click 'DHCP Assigned IP Address' and
the manually configured numbers disappear from the main
screen.
Which brings me to my question....
There is a second tab that appears in the
Windows 'Wireless Network Connection Properties' dialogue
box. The second tab is titled 'Alternate
Configuration'. It appears when I have selected 'Obtain
IP address automatically'.
Even if I fill out the 'Alternate Configuration' with the
details of my workplace's IP address,etc, I can still not
access the printers at work.
I assume that the computer is using the default Auto IP
address, since it has no reason not to. Is there a way
to force the computer to use the 'Alternate
Configuration' at home then switch back to the auto
setting at home?
Am I misunderstanding the purpose of the 'Alternate
Configuration' settings?
Or.... do you know of any other solutions? I have
already tried to assign the same IP address to my home
router as the IP address at work but my home router will
not accept that range of address.
Thanks in advance,
Neil