Why is both Wired/Wireless getting IP address?

Hi,

I had my G73 BB model connected to my DLink DIR-655 router as wireless N 65MBs (glad to see better than 54Mbps) and the issue I'm working with Perfect World hanging via their support so I decided to run a Cat5 cable to it and reboot and expected it to be on Gigabit wired and not both it and wireless.

Why did the wired connection not override the wireless? If I recall correctly it should override it and not give me two IP addresses on the system (which could lead to confusion). Either way (wired/wireless or just wireless) I still get the lockup as soon as I run patcher.exe or elementclient.exe (which should bypass it and launch.exe). I checked DXdiag and it is showing 10.1 for the driver, ATI Radeon 5870 as the video card (and in device manager, not VGA adapter as I saw elsewhere) and Realtek for audio drivers.

I have Avast 5.0 Pro antivirus running, Nero 10 installed, Malwarebytes antispyware and not much else. I have no problems firing it up and surfing the web wherever. It is just this one program I want to be able to run (occasionally, use desktop mostly) as well as get my audio software installed (that's next on list to try out) and see if it runs or hangs the system.

I also need to get hwinfo32 installed and monitor the GPU temps as I am curious if it is possibly the culprit, and if so I"ll return this to BestBuy for a replacement and if that behaves - keep it, if not - refund and get something else. I'm rather disappointed after reading glowing reviews on it to (after the fact of purchasing) find this and the vip asus forum (shut down but still accessible via links) with all these issues that people are having, from GSOD to backlighting to temperatures, to 2nd HDD install issues (I lost mine last night but reseated it, I need to get that silly bracket to make sure it doesn't move around..it should have come with it standard....HP is the same way the bastiches....nickel and dime you to death).

Anyways, any other suggestions on where to look (event logs, which one(s) specifically)? I looked in the latter but didn't see anything other than the complaint about power going away (hit power button to cycle it out of the hang).

Thanks!

Mike

 

Your Ethernet Card and Wireless Card have different MAC Addresses, the router only recognizes them by that therefore it gives 2 IP addresses for 2 different devices.

 

Hmm, on my Pavillion I don't think it was setting both IP's (I will check if I connect it to wired some time this week). Other than that, ok. But who gets priority for being the active connection since it is getting 2 IP's? I would think the wired one should/would take precedence over wireless for obvious reasons (speed/bandwidth). I'll have to have them both up so I can see who's xferring packets while I browse the net before working on the lockup issue (gonna get the AMD GPU tool and hwinfo32 to keep an eye on, and look in my event log for those WHEA messages Error code 17 or whatnot I read in ehre to see if they are getting spammed on my lappy too).

Thanks for the info!

Mike

 

It's perfectly acceptable to have multiple network interfaces and corresponding multiple IPs on a machine. There is no confusion (except to you ).

If you want to ensure only the LAN adapter is used, then use Fn-F2 to click off your wireless when using wired connection.

 

From the command-line, type "route print" with both connections established.

You'll see that the metric for the wired connection is less than that of the wireless connection - which means it will send traffic for that subnet via the cheapest method first, unless it fails, in which case it will switch over to the wireless connection.