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Mixed wireless and wired (Ethernet) networksHello,
I have a PC running WinXP Home which has two network adapters installed: wireless 802.11g and Ethernet. The wireless works perfectly. However as soon as I plug in the Ethernet cable, the internet connection goes down. The ethernet connection has a fixed IP address of 172.16.1.203 and a subnet mask of 255.255.0.0 and no default gateway. How can I get both of these network adapters to work together. I have made sure that the preferred network order is: 1) Wireless 2) Ethernet. I have also tried putting in the 172.16.1.203 address in the alternate configuration for the Ethernet connection. Any other help would be appreciated. Thanks Mike eljainc wrote:
Show quoteHide quote > Hello, What's on the other end of the Ethernet cable? How do you know it's working?> > I have a PC running WinXP Home which has two network adapters > installed: wireless 802.11g and Ethernet. The wireless works > perfectly. However as soon as I plug in the Ethernet cable, the > internet connection goes down. The ethernet connection has a fixed IP > address of 172.16.1.203 and a subnet mask of 255.255.0.0 and no > default gateway. > > How can I get both of these network adapters to work together. I have > made sure that the preferred network order is: 1) Wireless 2) > Ethernet. I have also tried putting in the 172.16.1.203 address in > the alternate configuration for the Ethernet connection. > > Any other help would be appreciated. > > Thanks > Mike How did you configure the "preferred network order"? Did you change the interface metrics? If so, what values did you use? -- Lem -- MS-MVP To the moon and back with 2K words of RAM and 36K words of ROM. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer http://history.nasa.gov/afj/compessay.htm eljainc <elja***@sbcglobal.net> wrote in news:e7ac6667-9c96-4dac-875a-
cb46e38db***@t3g2000yqa.googlegroups.com: Show quoteHide quote > Hello, In the properties for each adapter under TCP/IP properties, click on > > I have a PC running WinXP Home which has two network adapters > installed: wireless 802.11g and Ethernet. The wireless works > perfectly. However as soon as I plug in the Ethernet cable, the > internet connection goes down. The ethernet connection has a fixed > IP address of 172.16.1.203 and a subnet mask of 255.255.0.0 and no > default gateway. > > How can I get both of these network adapters to work together. I > have made sure that the preferred network order is: 1) Wireless 2) > Ethernet. I have also tried putting in the 172.16.1.203 address > in the alternate configuration for the Ethernet connection. > > Any other help would be appreciated. > the Advanced button. You will see a box labeled "Automatic Metric" that is probably checked. With this box checked, a wired connection will take precedence over a wireless connection. Uncheck this box and put a number in the "interface metric" box. Lower numbers are preferred (higher priority) over higher numbers (lower priority). Do this for each network interface. HTH, John I tried this and it does offer help.
I tried entering 10 for the wireless and 20 for the wired connection. However now the wireless works but the wired doesnt. Is there something else that can be done to get the two networks to work at the same time? Thanks Mike Show quoteHide quote > In the properties for each adapter under TCP/IP properties, click on > the Advanced button. You will see a box labeled "Automatic Metric" > that is probably checked. With this box checked, a wired connection > will take precedence over a wireless connection. Uncheck this box and > put a number in the "interface metric" box. Lower numbers are > preferred (higher priority) over higher numbers (lower priority). Do > this for each network interface. > > HTH, > John eljainc <elja***@sbcglobal.net> wrote in
Show quoteHide quote news:9c6c16f0-8ec4-46c0-a75a-e2b322057c75@w35g2000yqm.googlegroups.co I posted your next step in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general.m: > > >> In the properties for each adapter under TCP/IP properties, click >> on the Advanced button. You will see a box labeled "Automatic >> Metric" that is probably checked. With this box checked, a wired >> connection will take precedence over a wireless connection. >> Uncheck this box and put a number in the "interface metric" box. >> Lower numbers are preferred (higher priority) over higher >> numbers (lower priority). Do this for each network interface. > I tried this and it does offer help. > > I tried entering 10 for the wireless and 20 for the wired > connection. However now the wireless works but the wired doesnt. > > Is there something else that can be done to get the two networks > to work at the > same time? In general, you should cross-post instead of multi-post when you can't decide where to post. HTH, -- John eljainc wrote:
> I tried this and it does offer help. No. You can't have wired and wireless connections active on the same > > I tried entering 10 for the wireless and 20 for the wired connection. > However now > the wireless works but the wired doesnt. > > Is there something else that can be done to get the two networks to > work at the > same time? > > Thanks > Mike computer at the same time.
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"deerslayer" <d*@noemail.com> wrote in Of course you can. You just have to have the routing tables set news:qkdwl.18913$19.8116@bignews2.bellsouth.net: > eljainc wrote: >> I tried this and it does offer help. >> >> I tried entering 10 for the wireless and 20 for the wired >> connection. However now >> the wireless works but the wired doesnt. >> >> Is there something else that can be done to get the two networks >> to work at the >> same time? >> >> Thanks >> Mike > > No. You can't have wired and wireless connections active on the > same computer at the same time. > > > correctly. -- John On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:18:15 -0700, John Wunderlich
<jwunderl***@lycos.com> wrote: >Of course you can. You just have to have the routing tables set That depends on the ip address of the wireless subnet which remains>correctly. unknown at this time (at least as far as my newsreader goes). If the wireless is on a different subnet to the wired there shouldn't be an issue in the first place. Jim. James Egan <je***@jegan.com> wrote in
news:72ehe2FpcoouU1@mid.individual.net: Doh! You're right, of course.>> Of course you can. You just have to have the routing tables set >> correctly. > > That depends on the ip address of the wireless subnet which remains > unknown at this time (at least as far as my newsreader goes). If the > wireless is on a different subnet to the wired there shouldn't be an > issue in the first place. > > It never crossed my mind that someone would try to simultaneously connect both wired and wirelessly to the same subnet... Thanks, John John Wunderlich wrote:
Show quoteHide quote > "deerslayer" <d*@noemail.com> wrote in Ah! You're right.> news:qkdwl.18913$19.8116@bignews2.bellsouth.net: > >> eljainc wrote: >>> I tried this and it does offer help. >>> >>> I tried entering 10 for the wireless and 20 for the wired >>> connection. However now >>> the wireless works but the wired doesnt. >>> >>> Is there something else that can be done to get the two networks >>> to work at the >>> same time? >>> >>> Thanks >>> Mike >> >> No. You can't have wired and wireless connections active on the >> same computer at the same time. >> >> >> > > Of course you can. You just have to have the routing tables set > correctly. > > -- John Hi
Having two Network card on a computer create a Psychological problem among many End Users that can not let go that there is piece of hardware that is useless under most scenarios. You have to explain what is that you intend to do when you say working together. In most cases there is No working together when using regular client OS. You let them work one of the time with Metrics, or switch Off the One that you do not use. ( http://www.ezlan.net/metrics.html ). Jack (MS, MVP-Networking). Show quoteHide quote "eljainc" <elja***@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message news:e7ac6667-9c96-4dac-875a-cb46e38db97a@t3g2000yqa.googlegroups.com... > Hello, > > I have a PC running WinXP Home which has two network adapters > installed: wireless 802.11g and Ethernet. The wireless works > perfectly. However as soon as I plug in the Ethernet cable, the > internet connection goes down. The ethernet connection has a fixed IP > address of 172.16.1.203 and a subnet mask of 255.255.0.0 and no > default gateway. > > How can I get both of these network adapters to work together. I have > made sure that the preferred network order is: 1) Wireless 2) > Ethernet. I have also tried putting in the 172.16.1.203 address in > the alternate configuration for the Ethernet connection. > > Any other help would be appreciated. > > Thanks > Mike 
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