wireless vs. wired connections....

[rob davis]

I there a setting in windows XP & Vista for that matter where i can set the
nic/networking to : If the OS detects a wired connection to turn off, or
not obtain an ip address for the wireless connection....

( im seeing on Laptops with two ip addresses assigned to both wireless and
wired)...

thanks

r davis

 

[James Egan]

I there a setting in windows XP & Vista for that matter where i can set the
nic/networking to : If the OS detects a wired connection to turn off, or
not obtain an ip address for the wireless connection....

( im seeing on Laptops with two ip addresses assigned to both wireless and
wired)...

If the wireless doesn't have a physical switch, you can create
hardware profiles from the device manager.

In one hardware profile enable the wireless adaptor and disable the
wired. In the other, enable the wired and disable the wireless. Then
when you boot up the machine you will get an extra menu before going
into windows asking whether you want the wired profile or the wireless
profile.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308577


Jim.