Help with wired/wireless setup
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Hey everyone. My work laptop has both wireless and wired network connections. The wireless connection is the one connected to the DSL router, hence it's the one with Internet connectivity. The wired connection goes directly to a 100Mbs hub that allows faster connections to my dev database server. For some reason, Win XP wants to use the wired connection when trying to lookup and connect to Internet addresses. How can I tell the system to always use the wireless connection for Internet traffic? To add to the confusion, I also have a VPN that's connected some times through the wireless connection. Thanks for any help! Barry Etter
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Hey everyone. My work laptop has both wireless and wired network connections. The wireless connection is the one connected to the DSL router, hence it's the one with Internet connectivity. The wired connection goes directly to a 100Mbs hub that allows faster connections to my dev database server. For some reason, Win XP wants to use the wired connection when trying to lookup and connect to Internet addresses. How can I tell the system to always use the wireless connection for Internet traffic? To add to the confusion, I also have a VPN that's connected some times through the wireless connection. Thanks for any help! Barry Etter
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Hey everyone. My work laptop has both wireless and wired network connections. The wireless connection is the one connected to the DSL router, hence it's the one with Internet connectivity. The wired connection goes directly to a 100Mbs hub that allows faster connections to my dev database server. For some reason, Win XP wants to use the wired connection when trying to lookup and connect to Internet addresses. How can I tell the system to always use the wireless connection for Internet traffic? To add to the confusion, I also have a VPN that's connected some times through the wireless connection. Thanks for any help! Barry Etter
Change your default gateway on both NIC's to the LAN IP of the router. Any local access is delegated using your LAN IP's class C subnet and your default gateway. All local application requests happen by machine name from the command line arp -a to see the table or by IP . So you won't break anything at all by putting the default gateway of the router. XP treats your internet connection as your last connected one being higher up in the attempts. So if your wireless adapter lost signal your wired takes over. Once your wired takes over it's going to run the show unless something disables and renables your wireless adapter. Changing your default gateway on both to the router will fix the problem for you.
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