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Avanquest Connection Manager Creates Custom Profiles for Your Net Connecitons
Posted by Kevin Purdy at 1:11 AM on July 25, 2008
Windows only: Avanquest Connection Manager, previously a $US30 app, is now a free utility that could be seriously convenient for laptop users. The app lets you create profiles for your different wi-fi or LAN connections, changing email, printer, and network drive defaults depending on where you hook up, along with security settings and other concerns. The app's basic connection-chooser is also more user-friendly than Windows' own somewhat plain built-in version (though that might be what some road warriors like about it). The trade-off for its "free"-ness appears to be ads for other Avanquest software scrolling across the top, but I find them pretty easy to ignore. Avanquest Connection Manager is a free download for Windows systems only.
Tags: avanquest | networking | organise | wi-fi | windows | wireless networks
Comments (AU Comments · US Comments)
TheOtherKiwi
Posted July 25, 2008 8:12 PM
If you have an IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad and haven't automatically removed all the cruft that comes with it, then you'll have Access Connections that does this automatically, including changing Browser proxy settings, changing default printer and turning WiFi on while disabling Ethernet and vise versa.
Was a bit broken at first but by 2006 was pretty good. Don't know if this works on non-ThinkPad laptops though.
Barron
Posted 3:16 AM 25/7/08
What I want is a program that will automatically set my HTTP proxy accordingly when I connect to a network via VPN (and then, of course, set it back when I disconnect). Will this do that? Does anyone know of a program that will?
Barron
Capsaicin
Posted 3:09 AM 25/7/08
Connecitons? Are those like automatons?
Capsaicin
joelena
Posted 2:42 AM 25/7/08
For an ad-free alternative, try previously covered Net Profiles: [lifehacker.com]
joelena
andrewheiss
Posted 1:58 AM 25/7/08
Anything like this for a Mac? I use two different mice on my laptop, at home and at work, and both have different default tracking speeds, so I have to set the mouse preferences every time I change location... Grrr...
andrewheiss
moraltant
Posted 3:45 AM 25/7/08
I use a similar application now called Netsetman, so I decided to give Avanquest Connection Manager a spin. The latter seems to offer more configuration possibilities. What I most like about Netsetman is that you can configure everything on one page. I'm back on Netsetman.
[www.netsetman.com]
moraltant
ToddH17
Posted 3:03 AM 25/7/08
Another nice manager for multiple connections is NetSetMan. I use it on my laptop.
[www.netsetman.com]
There is a free version which allows up to 6 different profiles, and there's a paid version - which I believe is unlimited.
ToddH17
mcv2
Posted 7:09 AM 25/7/08
@Capsaicin: LOL!
That's a pretty bad typo, is LH's spell-checker broken?! :-)
mcv2
antman70
Posted 7:48 PM 25/7/08
This doesn't handle the need to be on a domain at work, and and switch easily to a network at home? I've some teacher friends and their work laptops ahave no simple way of doing this.
antman70
antman70
Posted 8:12 PM 25/7/08
Actually this does do what I asked! I'll give it a try and see if it actually works...
antman70
taziar
Posted 1:48 AM 26/7/08
Did they remove the download link?
taziar
taziar
Posted 8:12 AM 26/7/08
@myself: Well apparently they didn't. ^^;
taziar
phoenix
Posted 11:55 AM 30/7/08
@andrewheiss: Andrew, I'm glad you asked! You should try Locomatic; I've had some success with the app, and wrote up a quick review:
[www.appscout.com]
Good luck!
phoenix
briantm
Posted 5:35 PM 30/7/08
WinIPs does this quite well
[www.portablefreeware.com]
I used to do IT work for a number of companies and it allowed me to save all their IP profiles and switch between them with a right click on the systray icon.
briantm