>When I use my laptop in my home office, it still connects via the wireless NIC. How can I tell the laptop to
>connect via cable instead? When I plug the cable in, it still appears to be connected via the wireless card.
Probably if you disable the wireless adapter, the computer will either be forced to use the Ethernet adapter - or, if there is some problem, tell you that no connection is possible.
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