Easily Change LAN Settings to Connect your Laptop to Internet

Sunil Bajpai connects his laptop computer to the internet from office as well as home. But each time he shuttles from home to work (or vice-versa), he has to manually alter the network settings (IP Address, DNS Server, Subnet Mask, Default Gateway, etc) as the values are different for each location.



Sunil wants a simple solution - something that allows him to maintain multiple LAN profiles in one computer:

To connect the laptop from office or home, I have to change settings for the LAN and the browsers back and forth everyday. This is a big pain. Could you tell us how one may use different profiles for different locations?

Instead of fiddling with IP Addresses and the complex LAN settings, all you need is a free software called NetSetMan - a network settings manager that lets you create multiple LAN profiles on the same computer.



Related: Expand Range of your Wireless Network



As you move from one place to another, you can switch between various network profiles ivia the system tray or if you are a geek, through the DOS command line.



NetSetMan is available at Snapfiles.com. You can create upto 6 network profiles in the free version. It will even autofetch your current settings from "Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Properties" window.