Define which network connection to use

Luke · 14 Jan 2008 at 13:40

I have a laptop that has two network connections - one Ethernet, one wireless.
The system uses the Ethernet by default for everything if both are connected.

Is there any way I can get the system (inc Internet Explorer) to use the Ethernet, but Firefox to use the wireless connection?

At the moment, if I want to use the wireless, then I have to disable the ethernet.

The OS is Windows XP SP2.

Luke · 14 Jan 2008 at 18:35

No ideas at all? (gratuitous bump for the evening folk!)

Luke · 14 Jan 2008 at 20:09

That's not really much of a help. If I didn't want to use them both, I'd not have posted a question asking how I could achieve this...

Luke · 14 Jan 2008 at 20:22

Thus negating my desire to have IE and Firefox use their own connection?!? :confused:

Luke · 14 Jan 2008 at 21:00

Looking closer to what I'm after, but I can't see any setting in there that would allow me to set a default for Firefox...?

Luke · 14 Jan 2008 at 21:40

You're almost right in what you are guessing!
Yes, I want to use a corporate ethernet connection for most system functions, but use an adsl line via wireless for browsing. No hacking involved at all. What I'm doing is legit, but it's a faff to keep disabling and enabling connections.

If it's not possible, then that's fair enough. I just thought there would be a way of doing it.