Connecting to Wireless Network for Internet and Personal Wired Network

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brokenEggie

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Hi, I was thinking of setting up two networks in the following way:

Network 1 (Internet): Laptop connected to wireless internet network at home. I currently have this setup.

Network 2 (Personal): Use a wireless router to make a network for my laptop, my Bose radio, and my printer, all of which have wireless capabilities. The wireless router would not be connected to the internet or a modem, and could be connected wired to the laptop via ethernet (it'd be on my desk), since I don't think laptops with one wireless adapter card can handle 2 wireless simultaneous connections.

The reason I am not connecting the radio or the printer to network 1 is that I don't wan't to rely on my poor internet wifi connection from my part of the house for streaming music to my radio from my laptop or sending documents to be printed. Is this possible using a Win8 laptop? How will my laptop know to use Network 1 for internet use and Network 2 for the other things?
 
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If you have Ethernet to your room, all you have to do is buy a cheap router and configure it as an access point. That way you can connect your computer to one of its LAN ports (one LAN port will connect to the Ethernet from the main router) and you can configure your own wireless radio with your own SSID and security on a non-overlapping radio channel from the main router.

From your described need that would work well, but if you really want an isolated subnet you could do that with the same cheap router by attaching to its WAN port from the main router LAN port and configuring it properly.
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If you have Ethernet to your room, all you have to do is buy a cheap router and configure it as an access point. That way you can connect your computer to one of its LAN ports (one LAN port will connect to the Ethernet from the main router) and you can configure your own wireless radio with your own SSID and security on a non-overlapping radio channel from the main router.

From your described need that would work well, but if you really want an isolated subnet you could do that with the same cheap router by attaching to its WAN port from the main router LAN port and configuring it properly.
 
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Actually your proposed network should work well when configured properly. I've used a similar setup for streaming direct to a game console on the wired adapter and using wifi adapter for Internet access.

Network 1 will be seen as having the gateway, so access to the Internet will automatically pass through your wifi to network 1.

For network 2, I'd recommend setting a router LAN DHCP pool distinct from network 1 (e.g. if Net1: 192.168.1.x, set Net2: 10.0.0.x). I might recommend setting static IP for the wired adapter on your laptop, and leaving the default gateway field blank. Your laptop should see the Bose and printer when those connect to the Net2 router wirelessly.
 
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