[GH85Carrera]

Golly Windows 11 is wonderful!

My computer was acting weird, so I did a restart. It had been weeks since I have rebooted. If came up, but no internet. WFT???

Ok, I open up the "new and improved" network manager, and lo and behold, the computer can't connect with WiFi. Well of course not, I don't use WiFi and the antenna on the computer is not even attached. It also has two different 1 GB network cards with a Cat 6 cable going from the card, right to the router!

It changed which of the two cards I use and tried a different connection. All on its own.

So I killed WiFi, as I ain't gonna use WiFi when I have Cat6 direct to the router. I had to fight with some configurations, and finally I was back on line. What a total pain.

I can't imagine some geek at Microsoft thinking yea, WiFi is what everyone uses, and no one would want to use a much faster Cat6 cable.

I played with the WiFi connection when I first put the system together. It was 1/2 the speed at best of a direct cable. The router is just 6 feet away, why use a radio signal when the electrons can flow faster down a nice copper wire? I tried a bridge connection with the two cards, and it made no improvement at all. So I use just one, and ignore the second one.