New Connection

I have two seperate wireless networks that I like to use....different locations, settings, etc. When I go from one to the other and change settings, it overwrites my previous wireless connection in Network Connections. My question: Is there a way to create a second wireless connection in network connections? I am able to have one connection for my wired NIC and one for my wireless....but not two wireless. It seems to revolve around the type card or number of NICs in the system. If I choose new connection and go through that...it overwrites also. I'd like to have one for "Home" and one for "School" and enable/disable as needed.

Not sure that makes sense........and I am using XP.

Thanks.

 

Not able to either look at a wireless NIC or do much research right now but since you run XP, you may have a good option.

For the wired NIC, you can set up two completely different sets of values - a primary and and alternate. When you plug the NIC into the network it will try to connect using the primary and if no luck, it will try the alternate.

I'm guessing wireless may offer the same feature since the XP OS knows how to handle it. It's an option under the TCP/IP properties and here is what my wired connection looks like. General is the primary and Alternate is the secondary.

 

As always.....Thanks Newt.

I'll give that a try and see what happens.