"Herman" <whitehouse.madhouse.thisisaspamtraptakemeout!@big foot.com> wrote
in message news:PxbNi.2008$0z6.701@newsfe7-win.ntli.net...
> To be fair, the PC client did alert me to this fact every time it has
> happened, but yes, it does kick off the hardware client in preference to
> their own PC client

There is no preference. The last one which registers kicks the other out. As
soon your hardware registers again, the software client get kicked out.