Traveling with wireless

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I travel a lot, and frequently stay with friends who let me use their wireless. A lot of people don't give their home networks a personal name, so they remain whatever they were to begin with: Actiontec, linksys, default etc. Some of these have passwords, some do not.

What I want to know is if there is a way for me on my laptop (I have a macbook running Leopard) to assign these a virtual name, so I can store the appropriate password with the right 'linksys'.

Thanks!
 
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If it is the same SSID and network password - then it will remember that and automatically hook up.

That being said don't be a leech.

That also being said - I setup my friend's and family's network and I call it the same SSID and same password so that no matter who's house I go to I automatically have network access.
 
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Thank you.

When I am at Friend A's house whose wireless is named ACTIONTEC with password1, yes, my computer remembers that and logs me in automatically.

I travel then to Friend B's house whose wireless is also named ACTIONTEC with a different password. I connect to this second ACTIONTEC network, and the password over-rides the first ACTIONTEC (at least, I can no longer find it anywhere in the list of networks, and when I return to Friend A's house, I have to re-enter password1 - which then erases password2, and so forth.)

What I want to do is assign Friend A's ACTIONTEC network a name: 'FriendA-ACTIONTEC' for instance, so that when I go elsewhere and am using another, different, network also named ACTIONTEC, it will not erase the first password and SSID information.
 

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