From a lab maintenance report:
<blockquote><em>A couple of pc's had wireless and wired active.  They seemed to be slow.  I disabled wireless and they seemed to speed up!</em></blockquote>
Is this to be expected?

At Woodlawn we were talking with the TechCo about a new computer order, and suggested getting wireless adapters on some portion of them, even though most will be going into the lab which is all wired.  The wi-fi will allow flexibility for some which will go into classrooms and may have positioning issues (teacher desk not near Ethernet port, etc).  We were saying "And if one with a wireless adapter does go where it can be plugged in, any application or service will choose the faster route (wired), so there is no down side."

But maybe that is wrong, and when the wireless is notably slower than wired it should be disabled.  (This wouldn't affect the computer order discussed above, since disabling can be done later as needed.)  In fact, it's my impression that at Ray last year the then-TechCo told us when the new machines were installed in the lab, the vendor or contractor actually removed the wireless adapters from the computers that were getting good ethernet, and the TechCo packed them away in a box in the storage room.   I don't recall if it was the whole adapter or just unscrewing the antenna.  (Wouldn't a software disable be simpler and just as effective?)

Any thoughts?

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