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??
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blue68f100 Notebook Virtuoso
It first trys DHCP setup. If that fails if rolls over to a defaut value, static.
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I mean, how does it know which connection to use, wifi or ethernet, if both are connected? -
Have you read this?
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/cableguy/cg0405.mspx -
Thanks! Looks like i will find the answer there! -
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. -
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? -
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. -
blue68f100 Notebook Virtuoso
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.
What happens when your connected to....
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by GLO, Oct 15, 2006.