Swapping between wireless and wired networking

[Orc]

Cheers

I still believe that the internet is based on black magic and sacrifices of
goats to gods of packet switching so I suspect that this is one of those
issues where the sense of humor imp has taken over and it will never be
resolved or explained. Now where's that chicken.........

Orc


"John McGaw" <Nobody@Nowh.ere> wrote in message
news:JRYen.319779$H15.171537@en-nntp-02.dc1.easynews.com...
> On 2/15/2010 11:51 AM, Orc wrote:
>> I have a wireless enabled Windows 7 laptop which connects to my home
>> network normally when the network cable is unplugged or via the cable
>> when it is plugged in from boot. If I plug the network cable once
>> connected to the wireless, to gain extra speed when copying files etc,
>> the laptop continues to use the wireless over the wired route.
>>
>> On my XP machines it would switch seamlessly to the fastest.
>>
>> Is this a new and undocumented feature of windows 7 or do I need to
>> change a setting to make it swap automatically?
>>
>> Thanks for your help
>>
>> Orc
>>
>>
> I have the same sort of problem with Vista on my notebook so it isn't a
> totally new problem. Have never found a fix except to fiddle around with
> it until it starts doing what I want -- no pattern that I can see.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Your position on this is inarguable, I fear...

On 2/18/10, Orc posted:
> Cheers

> I still believe that the internet is based on black magic and sacrifices of
> goats to gods of packet switching so I suspect that this is one of those
> issues where the sense of humor imp has taken over and it will never be
> resolved or explained. Now where's that chicken.........

> Orc


> "John McGaw" <Nobody@Nowh.ere> wrote in message
> news:JRYen.319779$H15.171537@en-nntp-02.dc1.easynews.com...
>> On 2/15/2010 11:51 AM, Orc wrote:
>>> I have a wireless enabled Windows 7 laptop which connects to my home
>>> network normally when the network cable is unplugged or via the cable
>>> when it is plugged in from boot. If I plug the network cable once
>>> connected to the wireless, to gain extra speed when copying files etc,
>>> the laptop continues to use the wireless over the wired route.
>>>
>>> On my XP machines it would switch seamlessly to the fastest.
>>>
>>> Is this a new and undocumented feature of windows 7 or do I need to
>>> change a setting to make it swap automatically?
>>>
>>> Thanks for your help
>>>
>>> Orc
>>>
>>>
>> I have the same sort of problem with Vista on my notebook so it isn't a
>> totally new problem. Have never found a fix except to fiddle around with it
>> until it starts doing what I want -- no pattern that I can see.

--
Gene Bloch 650.366.4267 lettersatblochg.com

 

[Yousuf Khan]

Orc wrote:
> Cheers
>
> I still believe that the internet is based on black magic and sacrifices
> of goats to gods of packet switching so I suspect that this is one of
> those issues where the sense of humor imp has taken over and it will
> never be resolved or explained. Now where's that chicken.........
>
> Orc


Sometimes the secrecy about a missing feature is probably an indication
that Microsoft now wants to charge for a service that was previously
free. It sounds to me like this feature bordered too much on the
category known as network load balancing, which is a highly desired
feature on servers. So maybe they won't allow you to do this without
paying for a server OS license?

Yousuf Khan

 

[Char Jackson]

On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 1829 -0500, Yousuf Khan
<bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> wrote:

>Sometimes the secrecy about a missing feature is probably an indication
>that Microsoft now wants to charge for a service that was previously
>free. It sounds to me like this feature bordered too much on the
>category known as network load balancing, which is a highly desired
>feature on servers. So maybe they won't allow you to do this without
>paying for a server OS license?

It's really not anything like network load balancing, so I don't think
that's to blame.

 

[Orc]

And I thought I was cynical about Microsoft's motives, but I think that it
one to far.

I have noticed that the laptop in question appears to have 2 IP addresses,
one of the wireless and one for the fixed - I'm sure my similar xp machine
didn't but I might be wrong...

Orc


"Yousuf Khan" <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:4b807116$1@news.bnb-lp.com...
> Orc wrote:
>> Cheers
>>
>> I still believe that the internet is based on black magic and sacrifices
>> of goats to gods of packet switching so I suspect that this is one of
>> those issues where the sense of humor imp has taken over and it will
>> never be resolved or explained. Now where's that chicken.........
>>
>> Orc
>
>
> Sometimes the secrecy about a missing feature is probably an indication
> that Microsoft now wants to charge for a service that was previously free.
> It sounds to me like this feature bordered too much on the category known
> as network load balancing, which is a highly desired feature on servers.
> So maybe they won't allow you to do this without paying for a server OS
> license?
>
> Yousuf Khan

 

[Char Jackson]

On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:00:51 -0000, "Orc" <not@here.com> wrote:

>I have noticed that the laptop in question appears to have 2 IP addresses,
>one of the wireless and one for the fixed - I'm sure my similar xp machine
>didn't but I might be wrong...
>
>Orc

Each interface will have it's own IP address, so what you're seeing on
your laptop is normal. Your XP machine would have been the same way.

 

[Orc]

Thank you all------ Swapping between wireless and wired networking

Just to say thank you to everybody who answered my question.

Although I haven't been able to solve the problem but I am wiser (and older)
than when I started

And any day you learn something is a day well used.

Cheers

"Orc" <not@here.com> wrote in message
news:bYeen.167574$0b3.161664@newsfe24.ams2...
> I have a wireless enabled Windows 7 laptop which connects to my home
> network normally when the network cable is unplugged or via the cable when
> it is plugged in from boot. If I plug the network cable once connected
> to the wireless, to gain extra speed when copying files etc, the laptop
> continues to use the wireless over the wired route.
>
> On my XP machines it would switch seamlessly to the fastest.
>
> Is this a new and undocumented feature of windows 7 or do I need to change
> a setting to make it swap automatically?
>
> Thanks for your help
>
> Orc
>
>