Can I have Stattic IP for wired and dynamic IP for WiFi adapter on my laptop

Dell XPS 13 mainly lives on my desk with a gigabit wire plugged in. When I travel (happens frequently) I turn on the WiFi adapter. I believe the adapters are separate hardware in the laptop. Can I have them configured differently under Win 7-64 so I don't have to mess with the settings when I go back and forth? Ideally, I would not even need to turn of the WiFi when I boot with a wire plugged in. Does anyone know about this possibility?

TIA
Robb

 

You can have a static IP for wired and dynamic for Wi-Fi.

Connect via Wi-Fi (and then via wire- one by one) go into networking center (assuming you use Win 7). Click on an active connection- click properties, click TCP IP v4 (I assume you still use it like most of us)- click properties again and there you can leave it at automatic IP or change to static.

Another thing you might be interested in id reserved IPs- that one is available on a router and it guarantees that a given MAC address (meaning one specific network card) will always get the same IP.

 

Thanks
So it sounds like the answer is yes... I can configure a fixed IP for the wired connection and if simply unplugged, the WiFi will take an automatic IP from the DHCP host. I don't need to go back and forth manually configuring for my use?

 

Yes that's right.