Re: Laptop network connections

Hmmm.  Are you running XP?  If you have a wireless icon in the tray will
probably tell how many bytes or packets have been sent wirelessly.  You can
see how many packets have been sent over the wired connection in the
Network and Dial-up Connections in the Control Panel.  I know that works on
my Win2K PC here at work and I assume it would show the wireless too.  If
you can see this then you should be able to tell which one is being used.
If it's not the wireless then it may either be a bogus message or the
wireless adapter is reasserting itself (for lack of a better term) when the
wired connection appears.  This is just speculation.

This reminds me that I have considered posting a question asking how the PC
determines whether to use the wired or wireless connections when both are
available.  I have such an environment at home.  How does one specify the
priority of the connections to use or does Windows just automatically
select the best route?  When I'm plugged in I want to use the 100 mbps
connection rather than the 11 mbps wireless.

Dave Parnin
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Nishikawa Standard Company
Topeka, IN  46571
daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx





                                                                                
                                                     
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It dons on me that I may have a problem.

I have a wireless router, with LAN ports.   When I turn on my laptop with
no
wire, I get a wireless connection but it is intermittent.  If I then plug
in
the LAN wire I get a message saying "Wireless connection is now connected."




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