Hi, I have a general question regarding a Laptop and Wireless Networking and Wired networking. If you have a Wireless Connection enabled and connected to the network and you plug in a Cat 5 Lan cable and it is also enabled and shows connected, which does the laptop use for the network connection ????? Can you tell it to use the Wired (cable) connection or do you have to disable the Wireless Adapter ? Regards, Glenn

No you don't have to do anything - Windows XP knows - as long as you don't reconfigure the Automatic Metrics feature for Internet Protocol routes. http://www.velocityreviews.com/foru... i_Xp/VistaUser

There are two determining issues: speed and gateway. Windows has an algorithm it uses to determine which is faster and will use that connection as primary. You can not have two gateways which you would have if both are enabled. This is where windows can get confused. This is also why it is recommended that you disable the other interface which is not being used. Imagine the power of knowing how to internet search http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/Teachin...