Switching between Wifi and Ethernet ?

26 Aug 2006 6:13 AM

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

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Daniel Royer
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26 Aug 2006 6:33 AM

Gerald Vogt

Daniel Royer wrote:

> 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

26 Aug 2006 8:24 AM

Timothy Baldwin

In message <44efe68***@nntp.unige.ch>, Daniel Royer <dan***@royer.ch> wrote:

> 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.

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26 Aug 2006 8:53 AM

Steve Winograd [MVP]

In article <44efe68***@nntp.unige.ch>, Daniel Royer <dan***@royer.ch>
wrote:

>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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26 Aug 2006 9:21 AM

Daniel Royer

* Steve Winograd [MVP] wrote, On 26/08/2006 10:53:
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> In article <44efe68***@nntp.unige.ch>, Daniel Royer <dan***@royer.ch>
> wrote:
>> 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

Thanks Steve and all

Daniel

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Daniel Royer
University of Geneva
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