Anyone know of a utility to disable the wireless when a computer is plugged into the wired network?

Some time ago I read an article in Network World about switched
wireless network hardware and it's implementation in an enterprise
environment.

At the tim I surfed the companies profiled and on one of their sites
saw a small utility that would automatically disable the wireless on
an employee's laptop if they plugged into the wired ethernet. It was
freeware.

I have surfed all the manufacturers sites I can think of or find in
the Network World archives but I cannot find that utility.

I should have nabbed it at the time, it's unlike me not to, and I may
have. But I can't find it.

Has anyone seen that or know it's name or where it can be found?

On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 03:34:21 GMT, "(E-Mail Removed)"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Some time ago I read an article in Network World about switched
>wireless network hardware and it's implementation in an enterprise
>environment.
>
>At the tim I surfed the companies profiled and on one of their sites
>saw a small utility that would automatically disable the wireless on
>an employee's laptop if they plugged into the wired ethernet. It was
>freeware.
>
>I have surfed all the manufacturers sites I can think of or find in
>the Network World archives but I cannot find that utility.
>
>I should have nabbed it at the time, it's unlike me not to, and I may
>have. But I can't find it.
>
>Has anyone seen that or know it's name or where it can be found?

Such a utility comes with various manufacturers laptops. It's often
part of a suite of wireless management utilities. For example:
Toshiblah: Config Free
IBM: ThinkVantage Access Connection
There are also a mess of "connection managers" some of which will do
the same thing. However, I can't think of one that is stand alone and
free. Sorry.

However, you don't really need to disable the wireless when one plugs
in an ethernet cable. The IP route metric provides a priority system
for situations where there are multiple paths to the default route(s).
Just run:
route print
and notice the "metric" column. The smaller the number, the higher
the priority (i.e. the lower the "cost" of the route). YOu'll find
that ethernet connections have a lower "cost" which will make packets
favor ethernet over the more "expensive" wireless router.

Description of the Wireless LAN Route Table Metric Behavior
<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315088>

Behavior When Connected to Both Wired and Wireless Networks
<http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/cableguy/cg0405.mspx>

An explanation of the Automatic Metric feature for Internet Protocol
routes
<http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;299540>

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On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 03:34:21 GMT, "(E-Mail Removed)"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>At the time I surfed the companies profiled and on one of their sites
>saw a small utility that would automatically disable the wireless on
>an employee's laptop if they plugged into the wired ethernet. It was
>freeware.
>
>Has anyone seen that or know it's name or where it can be found?
>
If you can find a copy, the utility was probably -Airsafe Personal-
(Freeware) by the Cirond Corp.

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wildbear -at- bigfoot.com

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> Some time ago I read an article in Network World about switched
> wireless network hardware and it's implementation in an enterprise
> environment.
>
> At the tim I surfed the companies profiled and on one of their sites
> saw a small utility that would automatically disable the wireless on
> an employee's laptop if they plugged into the wired ethernet. It was
> freeware.
>
> I have surfed all the manufacturers sites I can think of or find in
> the Network World archives but I cannot find that utility.
>
> I should have nabbed it at the time, it's unlike me not to, and I may
> have. But I can't find it.
>
> Has anyone seen that or know it's name or where it can be found?

http://www.ezlan.net/metrics.html

On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:37:01 -0400, "Gordon"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>
>http://www.ezlan.net/metrics.html
That is down.
Know the name of the file by any chance?

On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:01:20 +0100, Michael Slattery
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 03:34:21 GMT, "(E-Mail Removed)"
><(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>At the time I surfed the companies profiled and on one of their sites
>>saw a small utility that would automatically disable the wireless on
>>an employee's laptop if they plugged into the wired ethernet. It was
>>freeware.
>>
>>Has anyone seen that or know it's name or where it can be found?
>>
>If you can find a copy, the utility was probably -Airsafe Personal-
>(Freeware) by the Cirond Corp.

Well, I have been looking for Cirond Airsafe Personal, but not finding
anything.

I did find a reference to the freeware version.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m...10/ai_n9510334

It's airpatrol.com now, but it might not be freeware anymore. Seems
like the same people involved as were at Cirond. The site looks
similar to the one in the archive for cirond.com.

I found this page, and they may not know it's up there.
http://www.airpatrolcorp.com/airsafe...l.php?m=1&me=2
But no download link that I can find.

Can anyone help? I looked on the usual places, CNET, bittorrent,
mininova, snapfiles, astalavista. Nothing.

It would surprise me that no one has archived that file.

Can anyone help?

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:01:20 +0100, Michael Slattery
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 03:34:21 GMT, "(E-Mail Removed)"
>> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>>> At the time I surfed the companies profiled and on one of their
>>> sites saw a small utility that would automatically disable the
>>> wireless on an employee's laptop if they plugged into the wired
>>> ethernet. It was freeware.
>>>
>>> Has anyone seen that or know it's name or where it can be found?
>>>
>> If you can find a copy, the utility was probably -Airsafe Personal-
>> (Freeware) by the Cirond Corp.
>
> Well, I have been looking for Cirond Airsafe Personal, but not finding
> anything.
>
> I did find a reference to the freeware version.
> http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m...10/ai_n9510334
>
> It's airpatrol.com now, but it might not be freeware anymore. Seems
> like the same people involved as were at Cirond. The site looks
> similar to the one in the archive for cirond.com.
>
> I found this page, and they may not know it's up there.
> http://www.airpatrolcorp.com/airsafe...l.php?m=1&me=2
> But no download link that I can find.
>
> Can anyone help? I looked on the usual places, CNET, bittorrent,
> mininova, snapfiles, astalavista. Nothing.
>
> It would surprise me that no one has archived that file.
>
> Can anyone help?

Just out of curiosity, why are you looking for utility? Got XP? It's built
in to it, and you don't need a utility....Still using win 98? In that case
you may be screwed

"Peter Pan" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed). ..
> (E-Mail Removed) wrote:
>> On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:01:20 +0100, Michael Slattery
>> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 03:34:21 GMT, "(E-Mail Removed)"
>>> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>>
>>>> At the time I surfed the companies profiled and on one of their
>>>> sites saw a small utility that would automatically disable the
>>>> wireless on an employee's laptop if they plugged into the wired
>>>> ethernet. It was freeware.
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone seen that or know it's name or where it can be found?
>>>>
>>> If you can find a copy, the utility was probably -Airsafe Personal-
>>> (Freeware) by the Cirond Corp.
>>
>> Well, I have been looking for Cirond Airsafe Personal, but not finding
>> anything.
>>
>> I did find a reference to the freeware version.
>> http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m...10/ai_n9510334
>>
>> It's airpatrol.com now, but it might not be freeware anymore. Seems
>> like the same people involved as were at Cirond. The site looks
>> similar to the one in the archive for cirond.com.
>>
>> I found this page, and they may not know it's up there.
>> http://www.airpatrolcorp.com/airsafe...l.php?m=1&me=2
>> But no download link that I can find.
>>
>> Can anyone help? I looked on the usual places, CNET, bittorrent,
>> mininova, snapfiles, astalavista. Nothing.
>>
>> It would surprise me that no one has archived that file.
>>
>> Can anyone help?
>
> Just out of curiosity, why are you looking for utility? Got XP? It's
> built in to it, and you don't need a utility....Still using win 98? In
> that case you may be screwed
>

Yea!. Just right click on your wireless icon and hit DISABLE. Done.

On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 10:12:00 GMT, "Juan" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>
>Yea!. Just right click on your wireless icon and hit DISABLE. Done.
Well, it's not for me.

If I could depend on 1000 people clicking on their wireless icon and
hitting Disable this would not be necessary.

But clearly I can't.

So I want this out of their hands when they are at work.

> If I could depend on 1000 people clicking on their wireless icon and
> hitting Disable this would not be necessary.
>
> But clearly I can't.
>
> So I want this out of their hands when they are at work.



As Jeff said, just make sure that the metrics on each pc are set for
ethernet over wireless. Then, every time it's got an ethernet
connection, it ignores the wireless.


I'm having a hard time seeing why that won't do the job...

Cheers,
Steve