Questions about wifi hotspots and dv9000t with vista

Ok, So at my home I am hooked up to my own wifi, thats secured with wpa AES.
I also have it on a static IP. now, say I want to goto Starbucks. Is there a way so When I go there I can have the laptop know that location and change the ip settings to automatic, then when I'm home I can just select my home lan and it puts it back to my static ip settings.. is it even possible?? Thanks Tryton

 

It will jump back and forth automatically anyways. You just have to manually connect once.

It will connect when it's within range. Of course this doesn't include any proxy settings you may have!

 

so If I goto starbucks or wherever, I have to change the ip to auto myself, then when I get home, I have to type in my static ip and default gateway again?

 

just keep the laptop nic settings to dhcp and use static dhcp at home. it will see your laptop mac and give you your fav IP without the hassle of assigning it yourself. when u r at startbucks u will get their IP automatically.

 

AFAIK XP & Vista networking both manage TCP/IP per adapter. So you could have one adapter running DHCP and the other with static IP however there is no option to manage TCP/IP settings depending on which network you hook up to. The option kewlguy offers means you will keep running dhcp on your laptop, and can configure your network to 'recognize' your mac address and allocate the same IP all the time. Just make sure that if you have more pc's connecting to the same router/access point, then your preferred ip needs to be out of the local DHCP scope as not all home hardware excludes addresses registered for allocation.

 

Thank you, its not that critical. I have multiple systems on the network, all static. I will just switch it manually when I go. But thanks for the reply's