WIFI and Hard Wire Networking to a wireless router at the same time with 2 Different Networks.

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Dalascowbyfan

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I Have a Wireless router hard wied to my PC in My Room, No Internet. I Also have WIFI card tethered for internet. The problem i have is I have to unplug the had wired router from my computer to us the internet on the WIFI card. The router is for networking all the computers in the house for the kids rooms to share files. If they are watching a movie on the network, I have to interrupt them gto get on the internet. How can set up both networks to work at the same time on my PC?
 
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GavinLeigh

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You shouldn't need a wifi card if you are correctly hard wired to that router. Check the back of the router and see if there is a switch built in. If there are multiple ports make sure your PC is connected to one of the siwtch ports and not the internet "in" port from your DSL / Cable.
 
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Whenever you have more than one network connection, it’s possible you’ll end up w/ more than one default gateway. And that can screw up your internet access if the default gateway that’s NOT connected to the internet has higher priority than the default gateway that IS connected to the internet. IOW, your PC is confused because it’s getting conflicting/contradictory information about which network is the one that provides access to the internet. But once you disconnect the PC from the network that’s NOT connected to the internet, that conflict is resolved and internet access returns.

The easiest way to avoid this problem is to use a static IP configuration on the network that’s NOT connected to the internet, and simply don’t include a default gateway IP. Another option is to leave the configuration as is (i.e., using DHCP), but specify a higher metric on the TCP/IP configuration for the network NOT connected to the internet (e.g., 100) than the one connected TO the internet (which usually defaults to 1). The higher the metric, the lower the priority.
 
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Dalascowbyfan

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Ok I Have Already went the Metric way And It did as you said. It made the Internet connection priority, but still nothing on the Hard wired network to the wireless router.
How do I set up a static IP configuration? If I am shown once how to do this, I will never forget.

Thanks
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eibgrad

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The point of increasing the metric was to avoid having to change from DHCP to a static IP configuration on the other network.

Anyway, maybe something else is going on there, so using a static IP configuration might help.

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/19249/how-to-assign-a-static-ip-address-in-xp-vista-or-windows-7/
 
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