LAN and Wireless network should not enable at the same time??

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John Davis

I want to know if LAN and Wireless network connection should not enable at
the same time? otherwise, it may create problems?? If the connection icon is
enable, but I still cannot ping to public ip address, or go to internet,
what does it mean??

Please advice. Thanks!!
John
 
sounds like routing table issue. assuming you have wireless connecting to
the internet and it works. After enable wired NIC which is primary NIC and
routing order # is lower than the wireless (lower means first). Now the
routing table is changed and you may not be able to access the internet.
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Routing order

If you have two NICs in the same subnet on one w2k/xp computer, you wonder
which NIC is been used as primary NIC to access the Internet. In most cases,
when adding the second NIC on a w2k/xp computer, the first one is the
primary NIC. You may change the order by going to Advanced menu of the
Network Connection>Advanced Settings>Adapter and Bindings. If the settings
doesn't work (by default, the faster NIC will be chooses as primary NIC) or
if you want to override the settings, you can assign metric # manually by
going to the Properties of the Network Connection>the Properties of the
Network Connection>Advanced.
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