>I am not sure the issue. But let me try it. I always use wireless at home. My laptop connects both wired and wiles in the office. However, in most case the connection takes the faster one as primary.
>
>Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
>Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net
>How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com
>  <opchi***@gmail.com> wrote in message news:equmf2heghb5mdlo9okjr1pgln2mia3jtv@4ax.com...
>  Thanks very much in advance for any help.
>
>  I just moved my daughter to college. She has a ThinkPad running XP Pro
>  and I got a Linksys wireless routed, which is one supported by the
>  school's IT service. In order to connect her to the school's network,
>  we brought the laptop and the router to a building and students
>  configured them for us. The campus is wireless, but the dorm rooms
>  aren't yet. (This is Yale - I was expecting more for my $46k/year, but
>  that's another story.) The idea is that she'd be wired while in the
>  bedroom at her desk, but be able to take the laptop out to the common
>  room in the suite and work wirelessly.
>
>  I thought the laptop would realize when she is connected to the router
>  and not access her personal wireless network. She tells me that she
>  gets an icon stating that she has a great connection to the wireless
>  network, even when she's plugged into the router.
>
>  So ... why is the computer connecting to a wireless network when she's
>  wired? Is there some setting to have it connect to the router (and
>  therefor the wall jack) when the ethernet cable is connected, but to
>  her wireless network when it's not?
>
>  Again, thanks very much for any help.

news:26vnf25gemd2oesns8vq40fq2qtoj7skhu@4ax.com...
> Thanks very much for the reply.
>
> She thought her laptop, when wired, was using the wireless network. It
> turns out she was just looking at the signal strength monitor; she
> wasn't actually connected to the wireless network.
>
> Should the laptop, when wired, even be "looking for" the wireless
> network? If not, might that be a setting in her wireless configuration
> utility?
>
> Thanks again.
>
> On Sun, 3 Sep 2006 21:13:20 -0500, "Robert L [MS-MVP]"
> <nore***@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>I am not sure the issue. But let me try it. I always use wireless at home.
>>My laptop connects both wired and wiles in the office. However, in most
>>case the connection takes the faster one as primary.
>>
>>Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
>>Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on
>>http://www.ChicagoTech.net
>>How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on
>>http://www.HowToNetworking.com
>>  <opchi***@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:equmf2heghb5mdlo9okjr1pgln2mia3jtv@4ax.com...
>>  Thanks very much in advance for any help.
>>
>>  I just moved my daughter to college. She has a ThinkPad running XP Pro
>>  and I got a Linksys wireless routed, which is one supported by the
>>  school's IT service. In order to connect her to the school's network,
>>  we brought the laptop and the router to a building and students
>>  configured them for us. The campus is wireless, but the dorm rooms
>>  aren't yet. (This is Yale - I was expecting more for my $46k/year, but
>>  that's another story.) The idea is that she'd be wired while in the
>>  bedroom at her desk, but be able to take the laptop out to the common
>>  room in the suite and work wirelessly.
>>
>>  I thought the laptop would realize when she is connected to the router
>>  and not access her personal wireless network. She tells me that she
>>  gets an icon stating that she has a great connection to the wireless
>>  network, even when she's plugged into the router.
>>
>>  So ... why is the computer connecting to a wireless network when she's
>>  wired? Is there some setting to have it connect to the router (and
>>  therefor the wall jack) when the ethernet cable is connected, but to
>>  her wireless network when it's not?
>>
>>  Again, thanks very much for any help.

>I don't know of any wireless control utilities (even Microsoft's WZC) that
>take the presence or absence of a wired connection into account - if the
>card is active it will search for a connection and make one, if possible.
>Normally that should not be a problem as Windows will use the fastest
>available connection so wired will trump wireless and the wireless
>connection, though present, will not be used.
>
>I'd suggest using the button on the laptop to disable the wireless
>transmitter when its use is not desired.

"opchiasm" <opchi***@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Thank you very much.
>
> On Mon, 4 Sep 2006 06:33:06 -0400, "Richard G. Harper"
> <rghar***@email.com> wrote:
>
>>I don't know of any wireless control utilities (even Microsoft's WZC) that
>>take the presence or absence of a wired connection into account - if the
>>card is active it will search for a connection and make one, if possible.
>>Normally that should not be a problem as Windows will use the fastest
>>available connection so wired will trump wireless and the wireless
>>connection, though present, will not be used.
>>
>>I'd suggest using the button on the laptop to disable the wireless
>>transmitter when its use is not desired.