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From: "Jeroen Besse" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> Full Headers
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Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]OT(?): ThinkVantage? Access Connections
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 07:11:22 +0200
To: "OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>

On 10/11/06, Carl Gehr <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> wrote:
This may be somewhat OT, but I just happened upon this on the
IBM/Lenovo site:
    "ThinkVantage? Access Connections"
>http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/think/thinkvantagetech/accessconnections.html

"Avoid support costs by allowing users to seamlessly switch between
wired and wireless environments, managing security settings, printers,
home page and other location-specific settings automatically."

It also says:
"Access Connections works with Microsoft Windows XP and 2000 and is
conveniently installed on all new ThinkPad(r) notebooks."

Anyone seen or tried this?  To those of you who understand such
technical details:  Any chance of taking advantage of some of this to
port something similar for OS/2?  It would surely respond to a number
of the questions that have appeared here.

Carl

I think it's the best software for Windows I've ever seen.
It manages network connections, whether dial-up, wired or wireless.
You can create profiles which define which connection to use, with
which parameters, and other things, like firewall or not, file sharing
or not, home page override, etc, etc.

I'm afraid it's too much focused on Windows; my guess is that it's not portable.

Best regards,
Jeroen Besse
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