Wired vs. Wireless connection

[Peter Bako]

With a built-in wireless card and XP's automatic wireless connection system,
how does the issue of having both a wired and a wireless connection to the
same network get resolved?

Specifically I have a fully wired network here at home but also have a 11b
AP on the net. Since the wired network is nearly 10x faster than the
wireless network, I'd prefer to use that when I am at my desk. However
since the wireless card also kicks in, I get two IP addresses pulled from my
DHCP server for each interface.

Is there a way to set NIC priority under XP so if both the wireless and
wired networks are active to consider the wired network first? Or better
yet, can the wireless network be disabled when there is a wired network
active?

Thanks,
Peter

 

[Robert L [MS-MVP]]

yes, just disable the wireless. the first question is routing order issue.
quoted from http://www.ChicagoTech.net
Routing order

If you have two NICs in the same subnet on one w2k/xp computer, you wonder
which NIC is been used as primary NIC to access the Internet. In most cases,
when adding the second NIC on a w2k/xp computer, the first one is the
primary NIC. You may change the order by going to Advanced menu of the
Network Connection>Advanced Settings>Adapter and Bindings. If the settings
doesn't work (by default, the faster NIC will be chooses as primary NIC) or
if you want to override the settings, you can assign metric # manually by
going to the Properties of the Network Connection>the Properties of the
Network Connection>Advanced.
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