Network adapters for Laptop

27 Sep 2006 2:33 PM

LarrySPhillips

I have a laptop with a wireless network card and a it docks into a
station with a wired nic. I have a network-intensive application, and
want to use the wired connection (100Mbps) when docked, and the
wireless (54Mbps) when undocked.
I can have both cards enabled and don't seem to have any problems. But
I need to either disable the wireless connection when docked and enable
it when undocked, or somehow "select" the wired connection when docked.

I know I can set up a hardware profile, but as far as I know, a reboot
is required to select a different hardware profile.

Any ideas?

27 Sep 2006 4:36 PM

Chuck

On 27 Sep 2006 07:33:15 -0700, LarrySPhill***@gmail.com wrote:

>I have a laptop with a wireless network card and a it docks into a
>station with a wired nic. I have a network-intensive application, and
>want to use the wired connection (100Mbps) when docked, and the
>wireless (54Mbps) when undocked.
>I can have both cards enabled and don't seem to have any problems. But
>I need to either disable the wireless connection when docked and enable
>it when undocked, or somehow "select" the wired connection when docked.
>
>I know I can set up a hardware profile, but as far as I know, a reboot
>is required to select a different hardware profile.
>
>Any ideas?

Larry,

If you have 2 network connections, one Ethernet and the other WiFi, you should
be able to leave both active. The automatic metrics feature in Windows XP will
use Ethernet whenever it is working. I can move my laptop from Ethernet to
WiFi, and back again, without doing anything other than unplugging and re
plugging the cable.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/have-laptop-will-travel.html#Dual>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/have-laptop-will-travel.html#Dual

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