Mac Forum / Country Specific / Australian Mac Group / March 2005

Assuming Mac and OS X...

Go to the Apple Menu:Location:Network Preferences and make a new location,
so that you don´t overwrite your own. Call it yourfriendsplace.

You´ll need to know your friend´s username/password (if plugging it directly
into the modem), or an IP address on his subnet and the router/gateway
address if your plugging into their network.

If the latter, a lot of people set their ADSL/modem/routers up as DHCP
servers, so you might want to try the DHCP settings first.

good luck

I am by no means an expert on this, but a few things I know.  ADSL is
tied to the phone line, it has to be activated by Telstra for ADSL at
the local exchange.  If your friend has his phone line activated, it
might just work, otherwise, no way.  I'm sure if this is wrong, the next
reader will correct me.

I can't recall that there are any settings specific to the phone line,
only to the modem and the ISP.  If you use the same ISP at your
friend's, those settings shouldn't need to be changed.  You might be
real lucky with the modem as well, or if it's the same brand and model
as the one you're using, you may not need any luck.  I think you can
probably set up more than one configuration, so it might be a matter of
doing the second set up only once, and then switching back and forth.

Have you thought about wireless ADSL?  Like a mobile phone, but for your
laptop's connection to the internet.  Take it anywhere (that there's
coverage), flip open the lid, and you're on line, no fuss, no muss, no
wires.