What Is A Profile; What Is Network Switching; What Settings Are Switched In A Network Profile - Intel AnyPoint Wireless II Network User Manual

Understanding your AnyPoint™ Wireless II Network

What is a profile?

What is network switching?

What settings are switched in a network profile?

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Other settings
other 802.11b settings.
The operating system settings define shared and mapped drives, printers,
browsers, TCP/IP (addressing) functions and standard windows operating
settings. You can also save these settings in network profiles using the
tab.
Profile Manager
Network profiles contain all the setting listed in the previous section. For
example, you can set up several network profiles — one for your AnyPoint
home network; another for your place of business, and yet another for
public access points. The AnyPoint Connection Manager software lets you
setup as many profiles as you need.
Note: You rarely change profiles on your
are adding an access point or gateway into your network. For a
, you may add several profiles for use in several
laptop PC
networks.
The AnyPoint Connection Manager lets you easily witch between multiple
networks. When shutting down or starting your PC, you can select which
network profile to use. For more details, see "Using the AnyPoint
Connection Manager" on page 38.
Each network profile contains the settings found in the Network Control
Panel, as well as a few others.
Wireless settings:
• All 802.11b settings including network ID code, mode, channel, and
encryption
Operating system settings:
• Microsoft Internet Explorer* (4.0 and later) proxy settings
• Network resource settings, such as file and printer sharing settings,
default printers, mapped drives (Windows 95 and Windows 98 only),
and shared folders
• Some TCP/IP settings (found on the network control panel's TCP/IP
properties tab)
• Windows domain settings
• User name and Host name
• Software running at startup for the AnyPoint applications
- In some networks, you will be prompted to provide
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desktop PC
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