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From: Neil Harrington on 21 Mar 2008 00:04
The Windows XP Home computer in my living room is connected by Ethernet
cable to my D-Link DI-524 wireless router, my access point, which is
connected to my Motorola SB5120 cable modem. The WinXP Home system in my
office has a D-Link wireless PCI card, and the Win2000 Pro system in my
bedroom has a D-Link wireless USB device.

The cable modem and access point are always on. Occasionally I would like to
temporarily disable the network and Internet connection on one computer,
mostly when I am playing a game that's very demanding of computer resources,
because I don't want things like my McAfee Security Suite, Weather Channel,
etc., coming in and using my CPU and HDD.

How best to do this? In Control Panel I see that under Internet Gateway I
can disable my Internet connection, and under LAN or High-Speed Internet I
can disable my Local Area connection. Should I do both, or only one? Is
there likely to be any problem reestablishing the connection afterward?

Neil


From: Barb Bowman on 21 Mar 2008 04:54
disabling the Lan connection will stop Internet activity (and
enabling it should start it again fairly quickly). However, McAfee
and other programs on your computer that are running will continue
to use resources. Why don't you add more RAM?

On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:04:48 -0400, "Neil Harrington"
<neil(a)private.address> wrote:

>The Windows XP Home computer in my living room is connected by Ethernet
>cable to my D-Link DI-524 wireless router, my access point, which is
>connected to my Motorola SB5120 cable modem. The WinXP Home system in my
>office has a D-Link wireless PCI card, and the Win2000 Pro system in my
>bedroom has a D-Link wireless USB device.
>
>The cable modem and access point are always on. Occasionally I would like to
>temporarily disable the network and Internet connection on one computer,
>mostly when I am playing a game that's very demanding of computer resources,
>because I don't want things like my McAfee Security Suite, Weather Channel,
>etc., coming in and using my CPU and HDD.
>
>How best to do this? In Control Panel I see that under Internet Gateway I
>can disable my Internet connection, and under LAN or High-Speed Internet I
>can disable my Local Area connection. Should I do both, or only one? Is
>there likely to be any problem reestablishing the connection afterward?
>
>Neil
>
--

Barb Bowman
MS-MVP
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/meetexperts/bowman.mspx
http://blogs.digitalmediaphile.com/barb/
From: Neil H. on 21 Mar 2008 08:58
Thanks for your reply.

As for adding more RAM, I already have 2 GB in one WinXP machine and 1 GB in
the other. My Win2000 system only has 512 MB but that won't be used for very
demanding games anyway. I plan on disabling McAfee when I go offline and
maybe Weather Channel too, so they won't be trying to find a connection.

I should mention that I haven't yet had any problems because I haven't yet
installed the more demanding games on these computers. But McAfee in
particular often causes temporary slowdowns in other programs while it's
updating virus definitions etc., which it does when it feels like it -- so
I'm anticipating problems with, for example, the newest Flight Simulator
versions which are said to be quite demanding on hardware, unless I disable
my connection. I'm not really sure it'll be necessary, but knowing how to
disconnect will let me either confirm or rule that out as the problem if I
do have performance problems.

Thanks again.

Neil


"Barb Bowman" <barb(a)nospam.com> wrote in message
news:oqt6u358lcf7o69v9msvg6fpscpcaqgvmr(a)4ax.com...
> disabling the Lan connection will stop Internet activity (and
> enabling it should start it again fairly quickly). However, McAfee
> and other programs on your computer that are running will continue
> to use resources. Why don't you add more RAM?
>
> On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:04:48 -0400, "Neil Harrington"
> <neil(a)private.address> wrote:
>
> >The Windows XP Home computer in my living room is connected by Ethernet
> >cable to my D-Link DI-524 wireless router, my access point, which is
> >connected to my Motorola SB5120 cable modem. The WinXP Home system in my
> >office has a D-Link wireless PCI card, and the Win2000 Pro system in my
> >bedroom has a D-Link wireless USB device.
> >
> >The cable modem and access point are always on. Occasionally I would like
to
> >temporarily disable the network and Internet connection on one computer,
> >mostly when I am playing a game that's very demanding of computer
resources,
> >because I don't want things like my McAfee Security Suite, Weather
Channel,
> >etc., coming in and using my CPU and HDD.
> >
> >How best to do this? In Control Panel I see that under Internet Gateway I
> >can disable my Internet connection, and under LAN or High-Speed Internet
I
> >can disable my Local Area connection. Should I do both, or only one? Is
> >there likely to be any problem reestablishing the connection afterward?
> >
> >Neil
> >
> --
>
> Barb Bowman
> MS-MVP
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/meetexperts/bowman.mspx
> http://blogs.digitalmediaphile.com/barb/


From: John on 21 Mar 2008 12:06

"Neil Harrington" <neil(a)private.address> wrote in message
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> The cable modem and access point are always on. Occasionally I would like
> to temporarily disable the network and Internet connection on one
> computer, mostly when I am playing a game that's very demanding of
> computer resources, because I don't want things like my McAfee Security
> Suite, Weather Channel, etc., coming in and using my CPU and HDD.

I don't understand your logic here. If you don't want antivirus to consume
CPU time, why disable internet connection? Why don't you disable your
antivirus instead?


From: Jack (MVP-Networking). on 21 Mar 2008 12:08
Hi
Antivirus and Weather channel are Not a real factor in slowing down games on
a decent gaming computer.
Disconnecting temporarily from the network is very easy, make two batch
files as described on the middle of this page.
Jack (MVP-Networking).


"Neil Harrington" <neil(a)private.address> wrote in message
news:vridnfCvF8xbrn7anZ2dnUVZ_gWdnZ2d(a)comcast.com...
> The Windows XP Home computer in my living room is connected by Ethernet
> cable to my D-Link DI-524 wireless router, my access point, which is
> connected to my Motorola SB5120 cable modem. The WinXP Home system in my
> office has a D-Link wireless PCI card, and the Win2000 Pro system in my
> bedroom has a D-Link wireless USB device.
>
> The cable modem and access point are always on. Occasionally I would like
> to temporarily disable the network and Internet connection on one
> computer, mostly when I am playing a game that's very demanding of
> computer resources, because I don't want things like my McAfee Security
> Suite, Weather Channel, etc., coming in and using my CPU and HDD.
>
> How best to do this? In Control Panel I see that under Internet Gateway I
> can disable my Internet connection, and under LAN or High-Speed Internet I
> can disable my Local Area connection. Should I do both, or only one? Is
> there likely to be any problem reestablishing the connection afterward?
>
> Neil
>

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