Should wifi be made off when setting up an thernet connection in mavericks

I am having slow internet over Broadband on my iMac purchased in Novemver-2013. Both Wifi and Ethernet are "on" in my machine. I understand that Wifi is much slower than Ethernet. Then should Wifi be made off?

Wi-Fi is about 2-3 times slower that Ethernet and having bot on can occasionally cause problems, so I'd keep it turned off.

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The possible downside to turning off the WiFi on the AirPort Extreme is that it is not nearly as easy to turn it back on.
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3)    Click Edit
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6)    Edit the name of the wireless network
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Hi all,
I'm the second user of a company-owned MacbookPro (circa 2008) running Lion. I occasionally need to connect my machine to both ethernet and wifi networks simultaneously. However, every time I do that, a script kicks in somewhere that not-so-helpfully turns off the Wifi network for me.
I get the following popup in the upper right corner:
http://imgur.com/5X6MW
Airport Status
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There is a similar popup that says it is turning the Wifi on if there is no ethernet cable connected.
Does anyone know where this is coming from and how to disable it? I'm guessing the previous user of the laptop installed a script, but I haven't been able to find it. I've been using this laptop since before Lion came out, and I don't remember it happening before Lion, but that may be because I didn't try doing two networks during that time period. It became noticable and annoying when I installed Lion though. At first I suspected this was some default behvaior in Lion, but I've googled for the text given in the message and didn't find any Lion-related complaints.
It looks a bit like a growl notification, but it happens even if I kill growl. I don't have anything that would obviously cause this in
System Preferences-->Users&Groups-->Login Items
The closest thing I can find on the web is stuff like this:
http://www.macworld.com/article/154976/2010/10/turnoffairportscripts.html
Explaining how to add a script that automatically turns Wifi on or off. I've looked on my machine for scripts in the places suggested though and don't see anything.
I've also grepped all over ~/Library and /System/Library for 'network detected', but didn't turn up anything.
Other places I should look? Could there be an automater script saved somewhere that would do this?
Thanks,
Malcolm

Ah ha! Found it. (Looked for it several times over the last few months, and of course finally tracked it down 30 minutes after posting the question).
My company network admins included that script in a package of stuff that got installed... probably when I was renewing my VPN certificate or something.
/Library/LaunchAgents had a reference to a folder elsewhere, and when I looked there I found togglewireless.sh
All squared away now... Thanks for reading.

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hi,
thanks for your suggestions. I trashed the com.apple.powermanagement.plist file but there was no autowake file. The behaviour remained the same. I then reset the PMU as you suggested - still no change.
In the meantime I got another problem: the mouse is behaving erratically, the pointer is moving in jumps or not at all. The mouse shows the same behaviour when plugged in to my PowerBook - it must be faulty. I have just ordered a new Mighty Mouse to rule out any issue deriving from a broken mouse. I will also change the Lithium Battery on the motherboard even given the voltage is at 3,64 V, which should be sufficient.
Do you have any further suggestions?
Thanks in advance!
hi wolfman62--
i would try a couple of things. first, go to
/library/preferences and trash a couple of files in
the folder called systemconfiguration --
com.apple.powermanagement.plist and
com.apple.autowake.plist. then restart the
computer. test to see if there is any change. if
not, try resetting the pmu. to do this, shut off
all power to the computer and disconnect any
peripherals. then remove the power cord from where
it goes into the back of the machine into the power
supply. then remove the side panel and plastic air
deflector if your model has one. then look on the
bottom left corner of the logic board under the
bottom set of ram banks. there is a little square
with a button on it. (you might have to remove a
fan in order to find it.) ground yourself by
touching some metal and then letting go, and then
press the button on the logic board counting one one
thousand, and then release it. do not press it
twice as it can blow the chip. then put everything
back together and see if there is any difference.
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Hello all. I'm new to the wireless worid and was wondering should I turn airport off when not connected. I usually let the computer sleep when not using it.
1. D-link wireless G router (works great so far)
2. D-link tech support says I should let it run a while to make certain it is stable befoe I set up security (wep) (wpa). Which one should I use and how do I do it?
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I'm new to the wireless worid and was wondering should I turn airport off when not connected. I usually let the computer sleep when not using it.
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2. D-link tech support says I should let it run a while to make certain it is stable befoe I set up security (wep) (wpa). Which one should I use and how do I do it?
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