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OS X question regarding network locations
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Virginia
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Good evening....quick question regarding networks switching. Is there a simple way to switch network locqations b esides going into sys pref. and clicking network etc..../ I switch twice or 3 times daily between home and school. At school, i have a wireless network setup inside my class and have to have proxye servers , etc...to access the internet. (NOT MY CHOICE!) At home, I use ethernet through a router to access the Internet. It would be really nice to have an icon on the dock that either fires up the network preference or actually changes the locations...kinda like a software "toggle switch."
Forgive me if this has been discussed...I searched several forums and found nothing specific. Thanks in advance!
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Los Angeles
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Apple menu > Location > your location
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Outfield - #24
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Gotta love OS X.
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Virginia
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Originally posted by aaanorton:
Apple menu > Location > your location
WOW...I feel like a real idiot....ok...so I have been discovered NOT to be a power user....
Thanks so much....
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: Columbus, OH
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If you selection the location as "Automatic", I seem to remember that OS X will determine the active connection and select it w/o any user intervention.
I remember taking my TiBook to work and it would automatically select the Ethernet port when I plugged in the network cable.
When I got home and opened the lid, the Airport network would be found and selected automatically.
I'm not sure if this still works with Panther, but it sure did a few OS X versions back.
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Evans, GA
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I switch network locations somewhat frequently, Automatic at home and at one office location, and other named locations at different offices with assigned IP addresses.
I use Quicksilver as my app launcher (among a million other things) and it will switch network locations for me with a few keystrokes.
Mike
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Kansas City, Mo
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I travel frequently and have over a dozen locations set up for different cities. Unfortunately, they are dial up in hotels.
I am finding more and more however, that hotels are migrating to free ethernet and even wireless. (Airports too. Gotta love Pittsburgh!)
In that case I can just keep it on my Automatic setting and it finds the network just like it does at home.
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