Wired/wireless network confusion.?

Question

Last week, the wireless adapter card on my main desktop PC began to behave strangely - it would connect for a minute only a couple time an hour. It's been doing it ever since, and I tried everything to fix it. I gave up and bought a long Cat5e cable. Before hooking it up, I disabled my wireless adapter. Once everything was set, I had a red 'X' over my "Local area connection" icon, and it said "Network cable unplugged". So I play around with things for a minute, and I enable my wireless adapter, and it works...Flawlessly, for some reason. But I still have the 'X' over "Local area connection", but "Wireless connection" is working fine. I'm just trying to figure out if I am actually indeed connected through the ethernet cable, or perhaps the cable is just helping the wireless adapter connect (I know it sounds dumb)? I just want to be sure that, if I'm connected via wire, then I'm getting the most out of it, and that I'm not just using it in order for the wireless to work at a slower speed

Answer 1

Go to network conmections in control panel find yr Wireless adapter connection right click disable

Double clicking on it will renable it

Check yr signal quality from the sginal bar in the notification area when yr wireless adapter is connected

If it is low Wireless Connection drops is normal

Siwtch to a different channel from yr wireless router if you experience low signal

Answer 2

if there's an X in the icon for LAN, it's not connected (there's no blinking either).. if your wireless icon (the one with the wave icon) is blinking, then you are wirelessly connected.. better to disable the one that you're not using..

Answer 3

where is your  wired connection coming from? back of router, Modem. just need a little more info.