However the trick relies on disconnecting your internet connection within a few seconds. This is fine and dandy if the cable is right by your keyboard, mouse and monitor, but not if it isn’t.
Obviously you can enable/disable the NIC, but Windows 7 (at least here) takes a variable amount of time to perform the disconnect. Factor in UAC asking you for permission to disconnect then you have a bigger timing problem.
So a quick jump to the internet. The following lines of code sort it out.
Firstly, start a PowerShell session (ISE or prompt), but with Run as Administrator rights to avoid issues.
Then use the line:
Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_NetworkAdapter | Format-Table Name, NetEnabled, NetConnectionStatus, DeviceId –auto
This lists all your network connections, (extract below)
Name NetEnabled NetConnectionStatus DeviceId
---- ---------- ------------------- --------
<snipped>
WAN Miniport (Network Monitor) 6
Intel(R) PRO/1000 MT Server Connection True 2 7
<snipped>
Identify the Device ID for your network connection. In this case 7.
The following lines of code needs to run once only in your ISE session
$Nic = Get-WmiObject win32_networkadapter -computerName LocalHost -filter "DeviceId = 7"
Note that the number 7 at the end will need to be changed for your environment.
Then finally –
$Nic.enable()
or
$Nic.disable()
As you wish to switch your NIC on and off.
So, having prepped all that, a quick click on linking on the Zune screen below
Followed by a click on UPDATE, and then immediately run the disable command, and Robert’s your mother’s brother. When you click on the presented choice to download an update – don’t forget to enable your link again.
Note you may need to update teh Zune software, so you'll get a bit of this:
For a bit.
But then you should see an update offered, something like this.
 |
| 7403 offered to user |
 |
| 7403 ready to download |
Repeat until you have Mango installed
Enjoy!
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