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    What happens when your connected to....

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by GLO, Oct 15, 2006.

  1. GLO

    GLO Notebook Enthusiast

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    On my laptop, i generally connect to my wireless home network for browsing, but every know and then i need to transfer 5-10gb video files across from HTPC to notebook. So i bought a Cat5E crossover cable.

    What happens when both are connected? wifi is on 192.168.1.X and the cross over is on 192.168.4.X.

    So how does FireFox or IE handle multiple connections when both PCs are connected to the wireless network and by cross over cables?

    How does it decide which to use for file transfer and which to use for browsing? :confused: ?
     
    GLO, Oct 15, 2006
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    blue68f100 Notebook Virtuoso

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    It first trys DHCP setup. If that fails if rolls over to a defaut value, static.
     
    blue68f100, Oct 15, 2006
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    GLO Notebook Enthusiast

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    I dont mean between static and DHCP.

    I mean, how does it know which connection to use, wifi or ethernet, if both are connected?
     
    GLO, Oct 16, 2006
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    kegobeer, Oct 16, 2006
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    GLO, Oct 17, 2006
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    If you have a system that is running Ethernet as well
    as wireless
    simultaneously - anytime you attempt to access a remote
    service i.e. web
    pages, servers, etc, the system will send the requests o
    ut BOTH
    interfaces and the one that responds FIRST will be the
    default interface
    for THAT session. For example, if you are accessing w
    eb pages via the
    wireless all web pages for THAT browser window will go
    via the wireless
    but you can then try to access a file/print server and
    that will
    probably bind itself to the Ethernet.
     
    Reezin14, Oct 17, 2006
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    circa86 Notebook Virtuoso NBR Reviewer

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    sorry for digging this back up, I was wondering the same thing myself, read the microsoft info. it is kind of a shame it isn't possible to take advantage of the increased bandwidth of both connections at once. hmm . . . makes sense though.

    so is it necessarily a bad idea to do this? have both connections enabled at once?
     
    circa86, Nov 22, 2006
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  8. OttoRitter

    OttoRitter Notebook Geek

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    If this hasnt changed in a while look under

    Start-> Control panel> Network connections

    On the top menu chose Advanced settings and you can there chose the binding priority.

    A good idea would be to make your wired connection have more priority then your wireless one so that way whenever you are wired, you will go out trough the cabled connection.

    Otto.
     
    OttoRitter, Nov 23, 2006
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    A work around is have the wired on a different sub net. Then use ftp://ipaddress to connect. Being a internal on a different subnet it will default to the wired.
     
    blue68f100, Nov 24, 2006
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