Ethernet overriding Wireless Internet Connection

[Guest Dave Schwartz]

Hi. Thank you in advance for reading this and hopefully trying to help me.

I have a Dell laptop running XP which is used only sporadically, mainly when

I travel. My wireless connections always work fine, no matter where I am,

but when I was at a friends's house with no wireless network but with an

Ethernet network, when I plugged the Ethernet cord into the laptop, the

computer recognized it but didn't seem to know what to do with it. I could

not connect to any internet sites.

Do I have to somehow tell the computer what to do with an Ethernet

connection? Is it set to only look for and use a wireless connection? Can

I set it to also use an Ethernet connection even when a wireless network is

present? Can I set it to give an Ether net connection priority?

Did I ask enough questions?

One more question-can anyone help me?

Thanx

Dave Schwartz, Commack, NY

[Guest Lem]

Re: Ethernet overriding Wireless Internet Connection

 

Dave Schwartz wrote:

> Hi. Thank you in advance for reading this and hopefully trying to help me.

> I have a Dell laptop running XP which is used only sporadically, mainly when

> I travel. My wireless connections always work fine, no matter where I am,

> but when I was at a friends's house with no wireless network but with an

> Ethernet network, when I plugged the Ethernet cord into the laptop, the

> computer recognized it but didn't seem to know what to do with it. I could

> not connect to any internet sites.

> Do I have to somehow tell the computer what to do with an Ethernet

> connection? Is it set to only look for and use a wireless connection? Can

> I set it to also use an Ethernet connection even when a wireless network is

> present? Can I set it to give an Ether net connection priority?

> Did I ask enough questions?

> One more question-can anyone help me?

> Thanx

> Dave Schwartz, Commack, NY

>

>

 

Normally, no.

Normally, no.

Normally, it is.

Normally, it is.

No.

Maybe, if you care to reveal what you mean by "didn't seem to know what

to do with it," and some details about your friend's wired network (e.g,

does the network belong to your friend or were you trying to connect to

some commercial network, and if the latter, what your friend told you to

do in order to do so).

 

--

Lem -- MS-MVP

 

To the moon and back with 2K words of RAM and 36K words of ROM.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer

http://history.nasa.gov/afj/compessay.htm

[Guest David Schwartz]

Re: Ethernet overriding Wireless Internet Connection

 

This is a guy who can't see the forest for the trees. Just likes to sit at

his nerd desk and type gibberish so he can go to the newsgroup and see his

name. Like he had no clue as to what I was saying. What a d-bag.

 

 

"Lem" <lemp40@hotmail.com> wrote in message

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> Dave Schwartz wrote:

>> Hi. Thank you in advance for reading this and hopefully trying to help

>> me.

>> I have a Dell laptop running XP which is used only sporadically, mainly

>> when I travel. My wireless connections always work fine, no matter where

>> I am, but when I was at a friends's house with no wireless network but

>> with an Ethernet network, when I plugged the Ethernet cord into the

>> laptop, the computer recognized it but didn't seem to know what to do

>> with it. I could not connect to any internet sites.

>> Do I have to somehow tell the computer what to do with an Ethernet

>> connection? Is it set to only look for and use a wireless connection?

>> Can I set it to also use an Ethernet connection even when a wireless

>> network is present? Can I set it to give an Ether net connection

>> priority?

>> Did I ask enough questions?

>> One more question-can anyone help me?

>> Thanx

>> Dave Schwartz, Commack, NY

>

> Normally, no.

> Normally, no.

> Normally, it is.

> Normally, it is.

> No.

> Maybe, if you care to reveal what you mean by "didn't seem to know what to

> do with it," and some details about your friend's wired network (e.g, does

> the network belong to your friend or were you trying to connect to some

> commercial network, and if the latter, what your friend told you to do in

> order to do so).

>

> --

> Lem -- MS-MVP

>

> To the moon and back with 2K words of RAM and 36K words of ROM.

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer

> http://history.nasa.gov/afj/compessay.htm

[Guest Etal]

Re: Ethernet overriding Wireless Internet Connection

 

Dave Schwartz wrote:

> Hi. Thank you in advance for reading this and hopefully trying to help me.

> I have a Dell laptop running XP which is used only sporadically, mainly when

> I travel. My wireless connections always work fine, no matter where I am,

> but when I was at a friends's house with no wireless network but with an

> Ethernet network, when I plugged the Ethernet cord into the laptop, the

> computer recognized it but didn't seem to know what to do with it. I could

> not connect to any internet sites.

> Do I have to somehow tell the computer what to do with an Ethernet

> connection? Is it set to only look for and use a wireless connection? Can

> I set it to also use an Ethernet connection even when a wireless network is

> present? Can I set it to give an Ether net connection priority?

> Did I ask enough questions?

> One more question-can anyone help me?

> Thanx

> Dave Schwartz, Commack, NY

 

 

Both the wired and the wireless connection are supposedly

Ethernet. You should be able to assign priority for the different

connections under:

 

Control Panel : Network Connections (Rightclick and open) :

Advanced(WindowMenu) : Advanced Settings ... : Adapters and

Bindings : Connections : [ArrowUp]or[ArrowDown]

 

 

 

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