Hello everyone! I need some help.... I'm just wondering whether it's possible to connect to two different networks at once using my MBP....

Let me try to explain my situation... I live in a huge student apartment block that has its own ethernet network... Residents can subscribe directly to the internet provided by the apartment management... Whenever residents wanna use the net, all we have to do is connect a lan cable on the wall and on our computers, load the web browser and a login page appears, where we key in the username & password of our internet account....The thing is, they charge really2 expensive... So what my unit-mates(just my apartment unit) and I have done is subscribe to a wireless internet service, similar to jaring wireless.. The wireless modem is connected to a wireless router, and we connect to the router wirelessly... So the networks available are as follows:

NETWORK A-apartment management ISP
MBP>[lan cable]>Apartment ethernet

NETWORK B-external ISP
MBP>[wireless connection]>Wireless router>[lan cable]>Wireless Modem

I wanna access the internet using Network B wirelessly, but I wanna remain connected to the apartment ethernet to access shared itunes libraries (i don't need to key in the username/password in the web browser to access itunes libraries on the network)..

My built in ethernet is connected to the apartment ethernet, and airport is connected to the wireless network...What's happening now is that everything wants to connect via the ethernet network... Is there any way to manage which applications connect to which network?? I want my web browsers, instant messengers, and anything else internet related to connect to Network B, but i want iTunes to connect to network A...

help appreciated!

EDIT!! : SOLUTION FOUND! I've been experimenting with the settings, and the solution was quite simple... Under Network Preferences>Network Port Configurations, i just dragged AirPort above Built-in Ethernet in the priority list. Both connections are active, but priority is now given to AirPort so all applications connect to the internet via AirPort... iTunes stills searches libraries on all active connections, so i can still manage to find the libraries of the other residents... woohoo!!! lovin it... i knew it could be done, just had to know how... with a mac, everything's possible!!

Even though there's not many responses, thanks to everyone who bothered to read... I'm closing this topic.

This post has been edited by lailaikatong: Apr 22 2007, 04:41 PM

there's a program that can do that if not mistaken

try this site http://www.netsetman.com/

Err... netsetman seems to be for windows... Netsetman does what 'locations' on mac os x does... thanks anyway!