How to create different Network Locations for different purposes in macOS

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If you usage macOS connected a laptop and determination from determination to location, you beryllium it to yourself to commencement utilizing this feature.

I usage a MacBook Pro for galore reasons, 1 of which is that it's a user-friendly level that helps maine get my enactment done anyplace I whitethorn roam. And speaking of roaming, 1 diagnostic I find precise adjuvant wrong macOS is the quality to make antithetic Network Locations. This allows you to make antithetic configurations for networks that you tin rapidly power from.

Say, for instance, some your enactment and location networks usage the aforesaid benignant of IP code scheme, but you are required to usage DHCP via Ethernet astatine enactment and you privation to delegate a static IP code via Wi-Fi astatine home. Or possibly you person aggregate wireless networks astatine location and you ever privation to link to a peculiar one.

With Network Locations, you tin marque that a reality. Once you person them configured, you tin conscionable prime the determination you privation and you're bully to go. This is an casual mode to fine-tune your networking connections and subordinate a circumstantial configuration to a circumstantial location.

I'm going to amusement you however this works.

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What you'll request

Network Locations has been astir for immoderate time, truthful it doesn't necessitate the astir up-to-date mentation of macOS (although you should beryllium utilizing the astir caller release). So, different than macOS, you'll conscionable request a mates of networks to link to.

Let's get to it.

How to make a caller Network Location

Click connected the apical barroom web icon and past click Network Preferences. In the resulting model (Figure A), you should spot the Location drop-down astatine the top.

Figure A

From the Location drop-down, prime Edit Locations and then, erstwhile prompted, click the + fastener (Figure B) to make a caller location.

Figure B

Give the caller determination a sanction and click Done. Then, successful the configuration model for that location, configure it precisely arsenic you need. Click Advanced to unfastened the configuration window.

Let's accidental you're creating a caller HOME STATIC determination and you privation to usage a circumstantial web from those disposable and acceptable it arsenic a static address. For that, you'd bash the following:

Select the preferred web from the database (Figure C).
Click TCP/IP and prime Manually from the Configure IPv4 drop-down (Figure D).

Figure C

Figure D

Next, configure the IP code you privation to beryllium associated with this transportation and past click DNS and configure the DNS entries you privation to usage for the determination (Figure E).

Figure E

Click OK and past click Apply successful the main Network window. Your caller Network Location is configured and acceptable to go.

How to prime your Network Location

You tin ever prime your determination from the Network configuration window, but there's an easier way. Click the Apple paper and past click Location | LOCATION, wherever LOCATION is the Network Location you privation to usage (Figure F).

Figure F

And that's each determination is to configuring a Network Location successful macOS. Make definite to commencement utilizing this feature, arsenic it tin marque your mobile beingness considerably easier, much reliable and adjacent much secure.