When you connect your laptop to a lot of different wireless networks, like your home network, school, work, etc. and some of those networks use static settings, it is very annoying to change the IP settings every time. I use static IP settings at my home network, however almost all other networks I connect to use dynamic. Would'nt it be nice if you could just submit IP settings for each network apart? The standart settings could be dynamic, however if you want to submit a static IP for let's say your home network, Windows remembers it just like the WPA key. That would be awesome, no more manually configuring each time. I have a sollution, alltough it isn't a perfect one: create a .bat file with the following code:1netshinterfaceipsetaddressname="WirelessNetworkConnection"source=staticaddr=192.168.1.8mask=255.255.255.0gateway=192.168.1.12netshinterfaceipadddns"WirelessNetworkConnection"<DNSSERVERHERE>3netshinterfaceipadddns"WirelessNetworkConnection"<DNSSERVERHERE>4pauseNow if you click on the bat file with administrator rights, the IP settings will change to static. I tried a lot of programs and alternate IP settings, but as far as I know there is no perfect sollution for this, so this could really be improved!

I agree! I have the same issues here! My router does not have the option of static IP based on MAC so I have to set up a static IP on my computer to be able to forward ports all the time when I'm at home. But when I go outside I have to go back to DHCP or else I won't be able to use any wifi network outside. This switching is really cumbersome and sometimes easy to forget and so you spend time troubleshooting an outside network and then having to configure everything again when coming back home. I too have a similar bat solving my problem but a cleaner and more user-friendly solution as the one suggested by SixdaysNL would be awesome. Thank you very much!

Not sure if this is what you are looking for, but have you tried using the "Alternate Configuration" settings for your network connection? You can access the settings tab from the properties page of your network connection. Looks like the Alternate Configuration setting is for static IP addressing only.

I tried the alternate configuration. On the main tab, I left everything as it is (dynamic). On the alternate tab, I submitted all the information for my home network (which requires a static IP). The dynamic IP settings work fine, however when I'm at home, Win7 says it cannot make a connection on startup. When I command Win7 to renew it's IP, it works. But I allways have to renew my IP on startup for it to work. So I decided my .bat file was probably more convenient (instant succes) ;)

The "alternate configuration" will only work if you change the settings and then disable and reenable your wireless card (or of course reboot). If it has given it a 169 address from the start and you go in a change the wireless settings for the alternate config, it won't take it as it's done DORA by that point.Justin