Confused with Home and School wireless

Hello,
I have a Acer Aspire notebook computer running Windows XP, and we have recently set up wireless internet at home (broadband modem + belkin router). However, when I go to school, the wireless there doesn't work. I took it to the technicians there (who mainly deal with macs) and they ended up putting some proxies in and fiddling a bit with my settings.
When I got home this afternoon, I couldn't log back onto home wireless.
I don't want to undo all the proxies that were put in for school, so that i don't have to type them in everyday.
I was just wondering if there is a way (and if you could tell me how) to store two different internet settings as sort of 'favorites' so that I don't have to meddle around every day and night, and can just click on something for school settings, and another for home.


I hope that this makes sense and you will be able to help me,
Begley

 

Are you sure the techician guy set up the proxy for you? I really doubt.

Basically, the question you asked is about wireless connection. When you at home, select your home wireless connection and type some key/password if it requires. When you at school, select the school's wireless connection and the rest thing is similar, only the key/password might be different.

 

This is a growing problem. Some wireless cards let you save profiles and then swap between them. If yours won't let you do that, there are some software solutions that will let you manage multiple network connections. I haven't used any of these and cannot vouch for the them, but a quick search of cnet came up with these offerings:

http://www.download.com/Winc/3000-2085_4-10383476.html?tag=lst-0-2

http://www.download.com/MultiNetwork-Manager-Pro/3000-2085_4-10592775.html?tag=lst-0-3

http://www.download.com/WiFi-Hopper/3000-2085_4-10555886.html?tag=lst-0-10