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

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

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

Cheers

 

[Yousuf Khan]

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]

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

 

[Char Jackson]

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]

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

 

[EMG]

It's a long time since this was initially raised, but did you try setting TCPIP metrics ? You should be able to simply place a higher metric on the wireless connection to that of the wired, this is slightly different from network preferences.

 

[ewb]

Same problem here under Windows 7. I want to be able to move the laptop to a location sans wire and have the wireless just connect when I pull the wire. And sometimes vice versa.

I tried wirelessautoswitch.com (trial version) and find that it does the trick. Guess I'll pay my $8.

Would be nice if this functionality was built in to W7, like it is in ubuntu.

No affiliation with wirelessautoswitch.com.

 

[JinAshura]

Your solution I think

I think I have the solution to your problem. Sorry I was so late in getting it to you. I'm a linux guy and came across this issue after I recieved a laptop with win 7 for XMAS. Anyway all I did was a combo of what everyone on here already said.

Below is my 2 prong attack of network connection JUSTICE!
** first do the priorities thing for your wired netwrok connection.
Control Panel
View Network and status...
Change Network adapter settings
**Press ALT KEY (dumb idea microsoft. Press alt key? GUI user friendly
Advanced
Advanced Settings
From there, move your wired connection up using the green arrow of dumbness. (Unless you want wireless to take priority...in which ensure that is infront of wired)
NEXT, click ok
NOW, hit alt again
NOW HOLD CTRL key WITH finger. while holding ctrl key - click on wireless and then wired (order doesn't matter)
With BOTH connections highlighted click on advanced...AGAIN
This time go to Bridge connections. And bridge them.
This solution may or may not be seemless. This will also help fix a wired to wireless network visible device problem.

Hope this was the fix to your issue as it was mine.

Would you like to know more?

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