Silly question re: LAC & Wireless both active.

I have a laptop that I use as a desktop quite a bit. Well the last time I
turned it back into a desktop I forgot to disable the radio function so now
it is connected to the router via both Ethernet cable & WIFI. It never
occurred to me that both could be active @ the same time but they are &
appear to be working, although when I open up new web pages (according to the
networking portion of the task manager) most all the activity appears to be
going thru the LAC.

So my question is: can I leave the wireless network card active while I have
the Ethernet (LAC) plugged into the back of my laptop or should I be
disabling the radio function every time I use the laptop as a desktop?

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Regards snerdly

snerdly

In most cases, that is OK.

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"snerdly" <> wrote in message
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>I have a laptop that I use as a desktop quite a bit. Well the last time I
> turned it back into a desktop I forgot to disable the radio function so
> now
> it is connected to the router via both Ethernet cable & WIFI. It never
> occurred to me that both could be active @ the same time but they are &
> appear to be working, although when I open up new web pages (according to
> the
> networking portion of the task manager) most all the activity appears to
> be
> going thru the LAC.
>
> So my question is: can I leave the wireless network card active while I
> have
> the Ethernet (LAC) plugged into the back of my laptop or should I be
> disabling the radio function every time I use the laptop as a desktop?
>
> --
> Regards snerdly

Robert L. \(MS-MVP\)