Wireless and wired network together on Windows XP

Hello,

I am trying to install a wireless internet connection in addition to my
existing wired LAN.

I have a laptop which is connected to the wireless network and also an
enthernet cable is plugged to this laptop. On the other end of the
ethernet cable, there is a router/hub which is not connected to the
internet anymore, it is supposed to serve as a hub only. The wired LAN
is necessary for sharing files/drives with other computers.

My problem is that if the ethernet cable is plugged to my laptop
(running Windows XP Home), I can not get to the internet over wireless.
It looks like it is still trying to use the wired router to get to the
internet.

Could anybody shed some light on this problem ?

Thanks in advance,

Devrim

Atreides

Hi,

If you open a cmd prompt and type netstat -rn
you will probably see you have 2 default routes (0.0.0.0) to your wired and
wireless adapter with the same metric probably 20 - this is the problem

There are a couple of ways to fix this depending on what you are doing on
your network - probably the easiest way is to go to your network connections
page, right click on wireless connections, select properties, tcp/ip
properties, select advanced then untick automatic metric, enter a value lower
than the wired adapter (20) so use 10 for instance.

Now the wireless adapter will be prefered for all routes except the network
attached to the wired adapter. If you have other networks accesible via the
wired adapter ie. via a router, you can add specific permanent routes with
the route add dos command.

Hope this helps
Wayno

"Atreides" wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am trying to install a wireless internet connection in addition to my
> existing wired LAN.
>
> I have a laptop which is connected to the wireless network and also an
> enthernet cable is plugged to this laptop. On the other end of the
> ethernet cable, there is a router/hub which is not connected to the
> internet anymore, it is supposed to serve as a hub only. The wired LAN
> is necessary for sharing files/drives with other computers.
>
> My problem is that if the ethernet cable is plugged to my laptop
> (running Windows XP Home), I can not get to the internet over wireless.
> It looks like it is still trying to use the wired router to get to the
> internet.
>
> Could anybody shed some light on this problem ?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Devrim
>
>

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Works Perfectly ! Exactly the answer I was hoping for. Thanks a lot
Wayno.

Atreides