Question : Can I backup "preferred wireless networks"?  What about other network settings?

When troubleshooting a wireless network device, tech support people from the manufacturer have often told me to delete ALL PREFERRED NETWORKS in preparation for troubleshooting or setting up a new wireless network.

But sometimes the user will need the other networks for different locations. For example, one lady I know uses totally different wireless settings (ssids, passwords) in three different homes in different states (yeah, she's rich).  

Is there a way to "save" these preferred network settings, to be added back later?

(And while we're at it -- how about backing up everything on the network applet? Or parts of it?  (Protocol settings, network device properties -- gateways, subnet masks, IPs, DNS, WINS, etc).

thanks!

Answer : Can I backup "preferred wireless networks"?  What about other network settings?

if i'm having trouble connecting to a network, removing a preferred wireless network doesn't generally make sense to me. The idea behind is is that if you're in an area with network A and network B and you want to connect to network A but network B is higher on the priority list then removing network B from the list will prevent you from connecting to the wrong network. this is a normal teir 1 support reccomendation. but it doesn't usually do much good. If she can manually select the correct network and gets reasonable signal strength then having the secondary network B in the list isn't going to cause you to disconnect from A.

check signal strength, check inose and interference sources, check the channel you're on w/ netstumbler. In particular this is significant because if you have four or five different neteworks (in NYC it could be upwards of a dozen) available and they're all on the same channel they're going to drop connections. If that's the case, move the network to a different channel, one unoccupied, preferrably as far away in the spectrum from the rest as you can get.