Multiple Network Environments

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From: sAYk (sayk_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 04/30/04 

Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 20:54:29 -0600

I have an HP Pavilion ZE5400 laptop, as a QC Auditor I'm constantly visiting
different factories every day, I visit a total of 3 to 4 factories which I'm
assign to, I have all the necessary parameters (IP, Gateway, Subnet, DNS,
etc) to log-in to the Factory's LAN & Internet Access from all the different
factories. The problem is that each time I go to a different factory I spend
around 20+ min. to get the network working, as you can imagine this is very
frustrating, in occasions I visit the 4 factories in on day and spend most
of the time re-configuring the TCP/IP parameters, I don't know if it's only
me but WinXP usually never detects the Network on the first try (Reboot) I
usually Reboot around 3 times to get the network running, and sometimes I
get tire of trying and leave the system for a while, surprisingly when I
come back to the system after a while the network is already working.

Please note that all the factory network have workgroup topology, no need to
log in to any Domain.

Can anyone suggest a better way to handle this particular situation, this
newsgroup is my last option and hope you guys can help.

Specs.:
OS - WinXp Home Edition SP1
NIC - National Semiconductor Corp. 10/100

Regards,

sAYk

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