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stopping IE from using a connection

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Bob A Job | 17:59 Thu 07th Feb 2008 | Technology
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Further to my question last week, i have succesfully got two LANs running from the same computer and am accessing both fine. however, The old LAN i was using (a WLAN through PCI card) had a long winded shared, slow internet connection. and i now have ADSL through ethernet and that works.

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every now then when accessing the WLAN, IE starts to default to use that as its internet connection. Which is a pain in the ar$e. can i stop my pc from using the WLAN'a net connection without disconecting or blocking all connections?
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disable your wlan connection via control panel and network conections
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but that will stop me from accessing the WLAN withh all other programs.

I just want to direct Internet Explorer to use only the Ethernet connection
ah sorry bob did not realise you needed both
you cn indeed

use the firewall to block ports 80 and 8080
I hate this mouse

there are a couple of ways to tackle this .....
As you'll aready have found ... it's important which way round the connections are configured .... sounds to me as if it's a case of one card initialising before the other.
is the adsl connected by modem or router?

the simple way is to disable/enable the wireless lan connection as and when you need it.
(config the connections to display icon in sys tray - right click | disable)

the hard way (not that hard)
use the firewall to block ports 80 and 8080
(add any others if and when they cuse problemS)
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~rakerman/port-table .html#Table

if it's a vista machine use the network centre to block/allow

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The ADSL is ethernet to a router
The WLAN is PCI card to an AP

If i block ports 80-8080 that will restrict some of the programs i am using over the wireless network.

Any other possible way?? nothing in IE that i can direct to using ethernet only??

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