Laptop Wireless takes over hard line... why??

[Blammo300]

My Dell 9300 Laptop is plugged into a Hard line DSL connection. There are wireless connections around and for some reason the Wireless connection is taking precedence over the hardline.


Is there a setting for this some where?

 

[DaveSimmons]

Control panel > Network Connections, disable the wifi adapter

Hopefully that " Hard line DSL" connection has a router between you and the internets, or expect to be trojanned or rootkittened fairly soon.

 

[Blammo300]

Is there any way witout disabling my wireless connection?

 

[Blammo300]

Any other ideas?

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: Blammo300
Is there any way witout disabling my wireless connection?

Just re-enable it when you're away from DSL. Or buy a wireless router for your DSL and use wireless all the time.

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: Blammo300
Any other ideas?

Ask in the Networking forum (Dave gave a workaround, not a solution -- and 'buy a wireless router' is even LESS of a solution).

This must be configurable somewhere, since Windows usually defaults to using wired connections over wireless ones. I know you can tweak it for things like VPN (so that some traffic is shuttled over the VPN link and other traffic is not).

 

[Bluestealth]

Yes, you can change the metric, go to windows control panel, network connections, right click on your local area connetion(hardwire) and then double click on Internet Protocol(TCP/IP), then click on advanced, de-check automatic metric, and set a metric of say 10, then under your wireless do the same except input 20, should prefer the wired now. Someone more versed in windows networking may be able to explain this better.

 

[corkyg]

Don't know about Dell, but my H-P Wi-Fi has no problem with my hard wired network. When in doubt, just turn it off - don't you have a switch for that?

 

[Bluestealth]

Most laptops do, the only laptops I don't recommend disabling are broadcoms, since they have a habit of not coming back up until you restart. The kill switch or button on your laptop will turn off the antenna and keep the card active. This should work for what you want as well. Fn-F2, Fn-F5, Fn-F8, above keyboard, or on side of case are all popular locations for this button.

 

[Brock123]

Missed the end of the above message ignore this post eh ;-)

 

[JackBurton]

Really easy man. Right click on My Network Places and go to properties. Next go to Advanced>Advanced Settings... Now in the Connections field, move your wired adapter all the way to the top with the arrows to the right. This will tell XP (or Windows 2000) to use the first adapter on the list...well...first.

 

[Bluestealth]

Originally posted by: JackBurton
Really easy man. Right click on My Network Places and go to properties. Next go to Advanced>Advanced Settings... Now in the Connections field, move your wired adapter all the way to the top with the arrows to the right. This will tell XP (or Windows 2000) to use the first adapter on the list...well...first.

Wow, thats a hell of a lot easier then my first method