Overview:
Wireless AutoSwitch runs as a service and will automatically disable your wireless card when you connect to a LAN (hard wire) connection, and re-enable the wireless card when there is no LAN connection. This ensures that you are always using the fastest connection for network traffic. In the office this helps reduce redundant network connections, while still helping your employees seamlessly transfer from wired to wireless network connections.
For offices that are wireless security conscious this application makes sure the laptop's wireless card is off when the user is wired into your network.
What it Does:
Wireless AutoSwitch is installed and runs as a service that is set to automatically start. If the user stops the Wireless AutoSwitch program, it will restart automatically on reboot.
The first thing it does is identify the wireless card and then finds out if it is enabled or disabled. Then it checks if there is a hard-wire connection active. If there is an active wired connection the wireless card is disabled if it isn't already disabled.
At this point Wireless AutoSwitch is in a loop looking at the wired connection every 3 seconds.
Because the program is in a loop only looking at the wired connection you can manually enable the wireless card and it will not get automatically disabled by Wireless AutoSwitch (Only in Mode 1 and 3). This is useful if you temporarily want both wired and wireless enabled.
The moment the wired connect is disconnected, the wireless card is enabled and Windows takes over and makes a wireless connection if one is available and setup for automatic connection.
Wireless AutoSwitch will only enable or disable the wireless network card depending on the situation and nothing else. It does not establish the wired or wireless connections, Windows does that.
Differences In Each Product:
Wireless AutoSwitch 10 only works on Windows XP.
Wireless AutoSwitch Vista only works on Windows Vista.
Wireless AutoSwitch XPV works on XP, Vista and Windows 7, 32bit or 64bit. XPV also adds AirCards, 3G Cards, Broadband Cards and Multi-Card Support. Now no matter what kind of wireless device is installed it is disabled when there is a LAN connection. XPV will detect and manage multiple wireless cards, the other two products will only manage one wireless card (the first one it finds).