windows 7wireless-networking
my Windows 7 shows only the current connected wireless network in "manage wireless networks". Because of that I'm not able to remove other networks, which I won't use anymore.
I'm sure that there are other stored networks because I'm working in another city and it's connecting in both towns without asking for the passwords.
Is there an option, which I could have set accidently? Is there another way to manage the wireless networks?
Revised, as I did not understand your question totally at first: The reason is probably because of the metric I describe below, but in your case, you want to give preference to the wireless network. You will set it's metric to 1, and the LAN to 2, and move the wireless to the top of the binding order.
You should post your IPCONFIG/ALL as you have not posted enough information to help you with that part of the question, but you want to make sure that your IP addresses, subnet masks, and gateways are all correct.
To answer the second half of your question:
TCP/IP "SHOULD" automatically detemine that the wired connection is the fastest, but I have seen times where it does not do this correctly, especially if if gets plugged in after, and you already have a wireless connection, which is connected and active.
If you want to guarantee that the wired network gets preference, do the following:
Go into your Connection>Properties for both TCP/IPv4 and TCP/IPv6 (if in use)set the metric for your LAN connection to 2, and your Wireless to 1 (for most people, they would want these reversed). In the screenshot you can see where I set this for my wireless adapter. If you hit F1 right there, you can see this quote from the help file:
Automatic metric specifies whether TCP/IP automatically calculates a value for an interface metric that is based on the speed of the interface. The highest-speed interface has the lowest interface metric value.
Interface metric provides a location for you to type a value for the interface metric for this network connection. A lower value for the interface metric indicates a higher priority for use of this interface.
Then you can also change your binding order by opening Control Panel>Network and Internet>Network Connections>Advanced>Advanced Settings as in this screenshot:
Check to see if you have 3rd party wireless management software installed, if so check the configuration or uninstall it and let Windows manage the wireless connections.
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Our company's admin installed Intel PROSet/Wifi Connection Utility on all laptops. Network settings are stored by that utility, and won't appear in "manage wireless networks". I didn't noticed it yet.