Connection to router

Good afternoon:

I am new to this forum and relatively new to broadband so take it easy with simple responses, please.

I have an Airties wireless ADSL2+l Port Router which connects to TTNet in Istanbul.

When I open my laptop it connects using both the ether net and wireless connection but seems to send and receive data on the either net connection as default.

Someone has suggested that I should not have both systems connected at the same time.

Is this true and if so which one should I disable?

Cheers

The Magus

just disconnect the ethernet wire from the laptop.
should only have single connection (wireless) then.

hopefully you dont have any 3g connection on the laptop since it may try international roaming

In reply to a post by ggremlin:

just disconnect the ethernet wire from the laptop.
should only have single connection (wireless) then.

Ummm.

Well yes, if the poster prefers to use the laptop wirelessly.

The ethernet connection will be more stable (between the computer and laptop) than wireless, and probably give better throughput.

Welcome to the forums .

Pity on your first question you get two different answers.

I wouldn't really worry about it if I were you.

It will be using the ethernet connection when both are available for the reason I gave to ggremlin. There is only one connection between the router and the internet though, so no real problem.

It would be technically slightly preferable to disable one or the other but I don't think it is important.

If you won't be moving around with the laptop and are happy with it near the router, disable wireless. If you want to have it away from the router then disconnect the ethernet cable as ggremlin says.

You might find when disconnecting the ethernet cable that you have to tell it to re-connect to the wireless side, as I find sometimes it looks as though it is connected but it doesn't automatically start to use it if it was using the ethernet connection.

If you start the computer from scratch though, without the ethernet connection, the wireless should start automatically if you have set it to do so.

Good luck.