Access connections 5.30 Auto location switching problem

Trying to configure AC with 3 profiles. 1.Office wired, 2.wireless and 3.'Out of office wired' The last profile is for use when visiting client sites, makes proxy settings blank, ethernet ip to dhcp etc. I only want the Out of office wired profile to be applied manually so that whenever returning to the office and booting from cold the Office wired profile will be applied. AC doesnt' seem to actually work properly. I untick the 'Out of office wired' profile in Tools>Location Switching. I return from client site the office and plug in and switch on from cold. The first profile automatically applied is 'Out of office wired'. Despite having unticked this profile in auto location switching it still applies. I test in the office with the wireless profile and no cable. I then switch off the wireless adapter and plug in the cable. Result: Profile3. Out of office wired is auto applied. Again it was unticked in Location Switching
Surely this behaviour is wrong and constitues a bug.
Thinkvantage technologies seem to be going down hill.

Yes, ethernet is enabled and the port is saved for profile 1, the office profile.
The Out of office profile, no.3 is unticked for auto location switching - To me this indicates that the port should not be saved.
If I apply the Out of office profile and then return to the office, not only is the unticked profile 3 applied automatically but AC shows it has saved the ethernet port for profile3 and removed it from profile 1.
I have two questions:
- If this is how it's supposed to work, what's the point of being to able to untick the profiles in auto location switching?
- Is the last correctly applied profile saved and applied after - a cold boot? - a disconnection? - a hibernation?

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First, if you have a newer dual frequency Router, this Intel adapter only supports 2.4ghz..
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Now for the secret sauce to make Wireless N work: go to http://communities.intel.com/message/82098#82098
See Feb 3, 2010 post How to get 5100 AGN to connect at N speed?
I am indebted to this guy.
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Hello Helpful People!
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Unfortunately, I need to use this thing on the road as well as at home, so a fixed IP address isn't an option since I won't know what subnet(s) will be in use. I experienced the same problems last weekend at two hotels and in the Denver airport, so it isn't my router.
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If I let it fail, then reboot, it usually will succeed as long as I try to connect to the same access point that failed before the reboot.
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I see many, many people on the web who are having similar problems. Some of the threads go back more than a year with no resolution.
I have gone around and around with IBM/Lenovo support. They have escalated the problem to a series of lead techs who never return phone calls. Very disappointing, since the first tier techs are quite friendly and helpful - and generally return calls.
My next step is to go back to the nice man who handles escalations from the sales side, and ask him where to send this piece of junk. It boggles my mind that Microsoft and Lenovo will put this kind of half-baked crap in the marketplace, and then do nothing to get it working.
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I am geting an error message Access Connections Main Service has encountered a problem and needs to close. i can't seem to get rid of it. Any suggestions I am running Windows XP on a T500

hi,i'mnot the o/p but i have the same issue
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Access connection loses WWAN settings when rebooting

After upgrade to version 5.31, Access connection loses my wwan location profile when rebooting. It will revert to a profile named Mobile broadband. I can then edit this profile, but it will be lost when robotting next time.
I am using the Erricson wwan modem.
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Hi,
try to make following:
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By my previous issue was the fix following:
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1) Power Maangement driver
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-4GXPEG
2) Lenovo System interface driver
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http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-70000
7) Access Connection
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-67283
The installation order was the root cause in my case.
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Access Connections Ethernet Location Switching only saves one port at a time

Like many other people, I cannot get automatic location switching between two Ethernet networks to work properly.
I have two stored network locations; one for home and one for work. Both of these are set up as Best Available Network with both Ethernet and Wireless.
Under Tools - Location Switching, both networks are listed, and "Include Ethernet connections in automatic switching and prompt me to save Ethernet ports" is checked. However, in the details column, the current location has 1 saved port(s), and the other has 0 saved ports. The saved port is always the one most recently connected.
If I go to Edit Saved Ports, only one location is listed, with the correct IP address and MAC address for the router. If I connect at the other location, only that location is listed, again with the correct IP address and MAC address.
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My T520 was supplied with Access Connections 5.85 preinstalled. I tried upgrading to 5.97 in the hope that it had been fixed in the meantime. Unfortunately it has not.
Access Connections is still marginally useful to me for automatic switching between Wireless and Ethernet, and for a simple manual switch of settings such as default printer, home page, and file sharing. However, it would be very useful for the home and work locations to be autodetected and switched.
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I found from another bulletin board that ethernet location switching seemed to work OK with Access Connections 3.82, but stopped working with releases after that, and from my experience still does not work with 5.97
http://www.thinkpads.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=38514
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Hi,
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I found from another bulletin board that ethernet location switching seemed to work OK with Access Connections 3.82, but stopped working with releases after that, and from my experience still does not work with 5.97
http://www.thinkpads.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=38514
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In my Access Connections setup, I have a mix of profiles; some using DHCP & some using static IPs.
I am experiencing problem when manually switching between profiles, where the IP address is not always changing as expected.
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(all profiles are wired connections)
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Has anyone else noticed this behaviour?
I've found that by switching back and forth between profiles, it eventually resolves itself (although sometimes up to 3 or 4 switches is required).

AC 4.42 fail to assign a static IP when the OS is in spanish and the wireless device is Intel. In that case the problem was fixed with a patch that the support guys release.
In your case, I don't know my friend.
Have you tried using only Windows, without AC?
Regards

Location Switching and Access Connections 5.62

Under Location Switching, I enable the "Include Ethernet connections..." option. I then see my profiles for LAN connections at the bottom of the list and I can checkmark them. I can't however select them and change the order in the list. Is there a reason for this?

Hi,
in your situation, could you please make sure, that following Windows Services are started:
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- Terminal Services
There are the services, that are fully needed for the correct workflow of Access Connection.
Also please make sure, that you are using the latest version of following apps/drivers, which are also needed for AC to work correctly:
- Power Manager
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-70602
- Power Management driver
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-4GXPEG
- Hotkey features
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-74261
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