Wanna change network settings to work at different locations?

People working with laptops might have to swap the network settings depending on the location they work at. Normal usage being at Home and at Work. At work places these settings are normally defined by the DHCP and at home its a STATIC source most of times.

I have come up with a batch script using which you can switch between these network settings without having to change them manually whenever your work location changes. All that has to be done to copy the below script into a file and name it *.bat and just double click it. You might have to key in your work location as an arg when you run this.

Don't forget to define the following variables varip, varsm, vargw, vardns1 and  vardns2 with your network specific entries. (Your service provider must have provided you with these entries)

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@ECHO OFF

ECHO Change network setting for (Home/Work)?

set/p "cho=>"

if %cho%==Home goto HOME
if %cho%==HOME goto HOME
if %cho%==Work goto WORK
if %cho%==WORK goto WORK

:HOME
set varip=

set varsm=

set vargw=

set vardns1=

set vardns2=

REM ***** You don’t need to change anything below this line! ******

ECHO Setting IP Address and Subnet Mask

netsh int ip set address name = "Local Area Connection" source = static addr = %varip% mask = %varsm%

ECHO Setting Gateway

netsh int ip set address name = "Local Area Connection" gateway = %vargw% gwmetric = 1

ECHO Setting Primary DNS

netsh int ip set dns name = "Local Area Connection" source = static addr = %vardns1%

ECHO Setting Secondary DNS

netsh int ip add dns name = "Local Area Connection" addr = %vardns2%

GOTO DISPLAY

:WORK

ECHO Setting IP Address

netsh int ip set address name = "Local Area Connection" source = dhcp

ECHO Setting DNS

netsh int ip set dns name = "Local Area Connection" source = dhcp

GOTO DISPLAY

:DISPLAY

ECHO Here are the new settings for %computername%:

netsh int ip show config

pause.