good connection profile manager (aside from access conn)

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Nabeel · #1 Post by **Nabeel** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 8:14 pm

My parents just bought an e-machines laptop (hey, can't beat it for $600, it's not too bad...)
But the built in windows wireless manager doesn't have WPA, so we have to use WEP for now.

But, my main question, is there a good wireless profile manager, like access connections, that can be used to manage connections on that machine? I've looked around, but haven't really found anything. Tucows and Download.com haven't really got nothin

Thanks!

sinewave · #2 Post by **sinewave** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 10:04 pm

http://www.mobilenetswitch.com may be something to consider.

Nabeel · #3 Post by **Nabeel** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 12:34 am

Looks good! Thanks, I'll try it out tomorrow.

DavidNZ · #4 Post by **DavidNZ** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 4:34 am

Nabeel, how come you're moving away from Access Connections? Just curious...

ian · #5 Post by **ian** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 5:27 am

Perhaps I misunderstood, but I thought Nabeel mentioned his parents buying another laptop - sadly there exist in this troubled world other brands of laptop - we would be mistaken to believe there are only Thinkpads...to this end, I get the impression he wanted to know if a non-IBM access connections programme existed.

Nabeel · #6 Post by **Nabeel** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 6:45 am

Hahaha, ian is correct, it's not for me.
I told them about Thinkpads, but a little too expensive for their casual web browsing/email checking/radio listening

ian · #7 Post by **ian** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 12:04 pm

Thanks to Nabeels question, I have downloaded and begun playing with this software - seems to be everything I need for the three HP laptops our useless IT guy bought us to use at work...thanks sinewave for the advice.

Nabeel · #8 Post by **Nabeel** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 12:29 pm

Hmm, I'm playing around with it, it doesn't seem to be what I'm looking for.
I'm looking for a program that'll completely manage the connections, like AC does. I'm looking for the options for WEP or WPA, but can't any options like that. Or maybe I'm using it wrong?

Edit: Actually, I found a program
http://pctel.com/roamingclient.html
Not bad, supports WEP and WPA, and also alot of other wireless protocols aside from 802.11 (though they're plugins), but it's better than the built-in Windows client, so far.

DavidNZ · #9 Post by **DavidNZ** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 1:38 pm

oops - that's me not reading posts carefully enough!

good connection profile manager (aside from access conn)

good connection profile manager (aside from access conn)

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