Settings for Ethernet Connection between Laptop and Router

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Settings for Ethernet Connection between Laptop and Router

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Normally, all our devices except the SmartTV connect to the Internet via wifi. We have no problems with that connection path.

I want to check the speed of my new ISP. Mr. V (our Hans), told me that I needed to have an ethernet connection to get a true reading as wifi would affect the result. I finally found an ethernet cable. Now I can't figure out what settings to change on my laptop to cancel wifi and use the cable.

Can someone please give me explicit instructions - or a link to same - that will walk me through it?

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The only thing you need to do is to connect the ethernet cable to the ethernet port on the router and the ethernet port on the laptop.
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DOH!!!

Thanks, Hans!!! It worked a charm. I thought that there were settings in Network Connections that I had to change. No wonder I couldn't find anything online.

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There's often a key combination that will turn off the wifi on a laptop, e.g. on my Acer netbook I need to hold down a (blue) Fn key and then press F3. Some older Dell's had a physical switch on the laptop casing that turned the wifi on/off.

When I use a cable to connect my netbook to my router I always use the key combination to turn off the wifi but, as as Hans says, doing that is not really necessary.

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On my DELL laptop it's Function + PrintScreen
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Thanks for the input. I got my speed test done. I'm getting 600Mbps down, now. Best I've had in decades.

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That's quite fast!
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