Switching between wired and wireless

Is anyone aware of automated methods in XP to switch off the wireless
interface when connected to wired Ethernet? Most options I've seen involve
convoluted scripting. Users don't seem to be able to handle manual process,
and we don't find any XP Group Policy that will help.

Tom

"blooney" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:ED2CC14E-05E3-4657-AE78-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Is anyone aware of automated methods in XP to switch off the wireless
> interface when connected to wired Ethernet? Most options I've seen
> involve
> convoluted scripting. Users don't seem to be able to handle manual
> process,
> and we don't find any XP Group Policy that will help.
>
> Tom

Not in XP itself but Toshiba laptops come with an application
that switches to wired if it is available and to wireless if wired
is not available.

Unfortunately, these are not Toshiba laptops, and the driver does not offer
an option to auto-disable (as has been mentioned exists in some other NIC
drivers).

Still looking for that "magic bullet." Thanks for the suggestion.

Tom

"John" wrote:

>
> "blooney" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:ED2CC14E-05E3-4657-AE78-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Is anyone aware of automated methods in XP to switch off the wireless
> > interface when connected to wired Ethernet? Most options I've seen
> > involve
> > convoluted scripting. Users don't seem to be able to handle manual
> > process,
> > and we don't find any XP Group Policy that will help.
> >
> > Tom
>
> Not in XP itself but Toshiba laptops come with an application
> that switches to wired if it is available and to wireless if wired
> is not available.
>
>
>

Hi
If you do not mind that the Wireless would stay On but would not be used
when the wire is connected and a live.
Configuring Metrics, or how to choose the default connection between Wired
and Wireless Connections - http://www.ezlan.net/metrics.html
Otherwise Drag a short cut to the Desktop, or Start, or Quick launch, from
the Connection Icon (in the Control Panel/network Connection).
When needed, right click on the Icon and click Disable (right click and
Enable there after).
Even the most "klutzy" user should be able to right click once and click
Disable/Enable.
You can go fancy too, look for a macro program, and voice control
application, create a macro that does the right click Disable/Enable and use
voice command to execute the macro.
Jack (MVP-Networking).

"blooney" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:ED2CC14E-05E3-4657-AE78-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Is anyone aware of automated methods in XP to switch off the wireless
> interface when connected to wired Ethernet? Most options I've seen
> involve
> convoluted scripting. Users don't seem to be able to handle manual
> process,
> and we don't find any XP Group Policy that will help.
>
> Tom

We'll give the metrics suggestion a try. Thanks for the tip.

Tom

"Jack (MVP-Networking)." wrote:

> Hi
> If you do not mind that the Wireless would stay On but would not be used
> when the wire is connected and a live.
> Configuring Metrics, or how to choose the default connection between Wired
> and Wireless Connections - http://www.ezlan.net/metrics.html
> Otherwise Drag a short cut to the Desktop, or Start, or Quick launch, from
> the Connection Icon (in the Control Panel/network Connection).
> When needed, right click on the Icon and click Disable (right click and
> Enable there after).
> Even the most "klutzy" user should be able to right click once and click
> Disable/Enable.
> You can go fancy too, look for a macro program, and voice control
> application, create a macro that does the right click Disable/Enable and use
> voice command to execute the macro.
> Jack (MVP-Networking).
>
> "blooney" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:ED2CC14E-05E3-4657-AE78-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Is anyone aware of automated methods in XP to switch off the wireless
> > interface when connected to wired Ethernet? Most options I've seen
> > involve
> > convoluted scripting. Users don't seem to be able to handle manual
> > process,
> > and we don't find any XP Group Policy that will help.
> >
> > Tom
>
>

Tom,

Did the suggestion to use metrics work? I work from home and need the wire when working with large file transfers but I like to switch back to wireless 80% of the time. Now I flip switches and reset the router. Seems like there should be an easier way?

Well, if a person is smart, they always have one of the Nics disabled to
avoid the two-active-nics-on-the-same-network issue. So just enable the one
you want to use and disable the other. Then flip them around when you need
to go the other way.

The machine I am writing this with has a wired and wireless nics,...only one
is ever enabled at a time. The wirless is enable/disabled with a keystroke
(physical switch on some laptops),...the wired one is enabled/disable in the
Properties of Network Places, or Device Manager, or even the icon down by
the clock,..it is a simple right-click menu.

Reset the router? There is no need for that at all,..the router doesn't
really have anything to do with it.

--
Phillip Windell
www.wandtv.com

The views expressed, are my own and not those of my employer, or Microsoft,
or anyone else associated with me, including my cats.
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<Patrick Murray> wrote in message
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> Tom,
>
> Did the suggestion to use metrics work? I work from home and need the
> wire when working with large file transfers but I like to switch back to
> wireless 80% of the time. Now I flip switches and reset the router. Seems
> like there should be an easier way?
>
>

Hi
Metrics setting for Network Card is Not a Mind reading guessing what you
would like to do.
For your purpose if you put the Metrics preference on the wire connection,
as long as the wire is unplugged from the computer it would use the
Wireless.
If you plan to use the wire connection, plug it, in and it would
automatically switch to the wire card, even if the Wireless stays ON.
http://www.ezlan.net/metrics.html
Jack (MVP-Networking).

"Patrick Murray" wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Tom,
>
> Did the suggestion to use metrics work? I work from home and need the
> wire when working with large file transfers but I like to switch back to
> wireless 80% of the time. Now I flip switches and reset the router. Seems
> like there should be an easier way?
>
>

On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:51:22 -0700, Patrick Murray wrote:

>Seems like there should be an easier way?

Try googling for "hardware profiles". Perhaps that might be of
interest to you.


Jim.

Cup and pate this into a file called SetLOM.VBS and run, you can make it
silent by commenting the appropraite lines - works on XP never tried it on
Vista

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' SetLOM.VBS
'
' Enumerate all Wireless Adaptors and set LOM = 1
' to ensure wired connection disables wireless
'
' Version 2.0 Proof of concept - Paul Simmonds 12 Sept 2006
'************************************************* *********
' 2.0 - Correctly detect a Wireless from it's media type

' Set computer to work on, . is local
strComputer = "."
' CONST use for StdRegProv class
const HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE = &H80000002

' Create a Shell object to run the netsh command in
Set objShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")

' Get a copy of a reg info for Network Connections
Set objReg=GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=imp ersonate}!\\"&
strComputer & "\root\default:StdRegProv")
strKeyPath1 =
"SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E 972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}"
strKeyPath2 =
"SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Network\{4D36E97 2-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}"

' Enumerate the Keys, getting a reference to all subkeys
objReg.EnumKey HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, strKeyPath1, arrSubKeys

' Loop through the array of subkeys
For Each subkey In arrSubKeys

objReg.GetDWORDValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, strKeyPath1 & "\" & subKey,
"Characteristics", intCharacterics
objReg.GetStringValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, strKeyPath1 & "\" & subKey,
"NetCfgInstanceID", strNetCfgInstanceID
objReg.GetDWORDValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, strKeyPath2 & "\" &
strNetCfgInstanceID & "\Connection", "MediaSubType", intMediaSubType

' *** 132 means its a physical adaptor and 2 means it Wireless ***
If (intCharacterics = 132 AND intMediaSubType = 2) then

Return = objReg.SetStringValue (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, strKeyPath1 & "\"
& subKey, "LOM", "1")
if Return = 0 then
Wscript.Echo "LOM sucessfully set to 1 for wirless card " &
strDriverDesc
else
Wscript.Echo "Error: LOM failed to be set to 1 for wireless card " &
strDriverDesc
End if

End If

Next

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"blooney" wrote:

> Is anyone aware of automated methods in XP to switch off the wireless
> interface when connected to wired Ethernet? Most options I've seen involve
> convoluted scripting. Users don't seem to be able to handle manual process,
> and we don't find any XP Group Policy that will help.
>
> Tom