Network Question

[iEric]

I'm on my Powermac right now and I have a Airport Extreme base and card, and I also have a router which I am also connected to. Which one does the powermac use?: the Airport card or the built-in ethernet??

 

[Doctor Q]

Do you have an Ethernet cable running from the Power Mac to the router? If so, it sounds like you can use the built-in Ethernet port for Internet access and that you don't need to use the Airport at all. Are there other Macs that will share this same router for Internet access?

 

[iEric]

Okay well..the Apple Airport Card was built in...But I left it on beceause i print via the airport extreme base...but i'm wondering...When the Airport is on, and I am also connected to the internet via Ethernet, which one does it uses??


ALSO!!!!:
I have the airport extreme connected to the router...now my powerbook's airport won't work...anybody know why?

 

[Doctor Q]

In Jaguar (are you using Panther instead?), in the Network pane of System Preferences, the Show: drop-down menu lets you pick Network Port Configurations, where you can put your network configurations in the order you want them tried when connecting to a network. That's also where you define new network configurations. Do you have one for the Built-in Ethernet and one for the AirPort interface?

 

[Lanbrown]

Look at what your default gateway is set too. You can also do a tracert to see which gateway you go to as well.