Switching Locations
If you travel with a laptop, you may find yourself frequently opening up System Preferences→Network so you can switch between Internet settings: Ethernet at the office, WiFi at home.
The simple solution is the 
→Location submenu, which appears once you’ve set up more than one Location. As Figure 10-6 illustrates, all you have to do is tell it where you are. OS X handles the details of switching Internet connections.
Creating a New Location
To create a Location, which is nothing more than a set of memorized settings, open System Preferences, click Network, and then choose Edit Locations from the Location pop-up menu. Continue as shown in Figure 10-6 at bottom.
Tip
You can use the commands in the 
menu to rename or duplicate a Location.
Figure 10-6. Top: The Location feature lets you switch from one “location” to another by choosing its name—either from the menu (top) or from an identical pop-up menu that appears in the Network pane of System Preferences. Automatic means “the standard, default one you originally set up.” (Don’t be fooled: Despite its name, Automatic isn’t the ...
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