Switching between Wifi and Ethernet ?

[Daniel Royer]

When I connect an ethernet cable to my son's laptop the wifi connection
seems to stay on. How can I make sure that adsl goes through the lan and
not through the wireless connection?

Daniel

 

[Gerald Vogt]

When I connect an ethernet cable to my son's laptop the wifi connection
seems to stay on. How can I make sure that adsl goes through the lan and
not through the wireless connection?

Not at all. You need software that does that for you or you do it
manually. Check the software that came with the laptop. Many
manufacturers ship their own software that does location switching, e.g.
ThinkPads come with AccessConnection which switches the network settings
depending on how and where you (can) connect.

Gerald

 

[Timothy Baldwin]

When I connect an ethernet cable to my son's laptop the wifi connection
seems to stay on. How can I make sure that adsl goes through the lan and
not through the wireless connection?

That should happen by default, the wifi connection will stay on but not be
used.

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

When I connect an ethernet cable to my son's laptop the wifi connection
seems to stay on. How can I make sure that adsl goes through the lan and
not through the wireless connection?

Daniel

The surest way is to disable the WiFi connection when you don't want
to use it.

However, that shouldn't be necessary. When more than one network
connection can provide Internet access, Windows XP automatically uses
the one with the highest rated speed. So it will use a Fast Ethernet
connection instead of a WiFi (802.11b or 802.11g) connection.

For details, see:

An explanation of the Automatic Metric feature for Internet Protocol
routes
http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?id=299540
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[Daniel Royer]

* Steve Winograd [MVP] wrote, On 26/08/2006 10:53:

The surest way is to disable the WiFi connection when you don't want
to use it.

However, that shouldn't be necessary. When more than one network
connection can provide Internet access, Windows XP automatically uses
the one with the highest rated speed. So it will use a Fast Ethernet
connection instead of a WiFi (802.11b or 802.11g) connection.

For details, see:

An explanation of the Automatic Metric feature for Internet Protocol
routes
http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?id=299540

Thanks Steve and all

Daniel