WIFI & LAN connection

12 Mar 2009 10:21 PM

Noel S Pamfree

I have had my desktop and laptop running on a home wifi network for some
time without any problems until recently. However I think the wifi card in
the desktop PC is faulty.

Both machines run under Vista and I use a Netgear router.

To overcome the problem I hard-wired the desktop into the router and the
laptop continues to use the wifi OK.

Here is my question: Do I have to disable the wifi connection on the
Desktop somehow? Will there be a clash if both the LAN and the WIFI connect
simultaneously to the Internet?

Could this be why I have had a BSOD a couple of time recently?

Thanks for your help,

Noel

12 Mar 2009 10:38 PM

Jack-MVP

Hi
You better off disabling the Wireless connection.
Or at least configure the Metrics to prefer the Wire connection.
http://www.ezlan.net/metrics.html
Jack (MS, MVP-Networking)

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"Noel S Pamfree" <Noel.spamfree@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I have had my desktop and laptop running on a home wifi network for some
>time without any problems until recently. However I think the wifi card in
>the desktop PC is faulty.
>
> Both machines run under Vista and I use a Netgear router.
>
> To overcome the problem I hard-wired the desktop into the router and the
> laptop continues to use the wifi OK.
>
> Here is my question: Do I have to disable the wifi connection on the
> Desktop somehow? Will there be a clash if both the LAN and the WIFI
> connect simultaneously to the Internet?
>
> Could this be why I have had a BSOD a couple of time recently?
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Noel
>

12 Mar 2009 10:44 PM

John

"Jack-MVP" <j***@discussgroups.com> wrote in message
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> Hi
> You better off disabling the Wireless connection.
> Or at least configure the Metrics to prefer the Wire connection.

Strange approach. I'd remove and trash it if it's faulty.

12 Mar 2009 10:41 PM

John

"Noel S Pamfree" <Noel.spamfree@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:OYLIrD2oJHA.3876@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>I have had my desktop and laptop running on a home wifi network for some
>time without any problems until recently. However I think the wifi card in
>the desktop PC is faulty.

Is there any reason to keep faulty NIC?

> To overcome the problem I hard-wired the desktop into the router and the
> laptop continues to use the wifi OK.
>
> Here is my question: Do I have to disable the wifi connection on the
> Desktop somehow?

Once again, why leave a faulty NIC installed?