Hello, I have a router and a PC laptop with both wired and wireless adapters.
I want the PC to have a static IP of 192.168.1.10 and I want to be able to use wireless normally but be able to plug it in and switch over to wired when I want a higher data rate.
I thought this would be as easy as disabling the wireless adapter and enabling the ethernet adapter, however when I configure both adapters with the static ip (or different ones) and set 192.168.1.1 as the gateway on both, Windows blanks out the gateway address when I enable the adapter and will not connect.
I found if I configure the ethernet adapter as dhcp and disable it and configure the wireless adapter as static and enable it, that the wireless connection works fine and can access my DNS, however when I configure the wireless as dhcp and disable it, and configure the ethernet adapter as static and enable it, that it will connect to the internet but cannot access my DNS. If I ping the DNS it returns "Reply from 192.168.1.1: Destination net unreachable". If I then reboot the router, the connection is reestablished and the DNS is reachable.
The same thing happens with the wired network after a reboot of the router, if I unplug the cable and reconnect it. The connection is reestablished without DNS, and I have to reboot the router again.
If I disable the ethernet adapter and configure it as dhcp, when it is in that no DNS state, and then configure the the wireless adapter as static and enable it, the wireless connnection is activated with DNS access and no router reboot is required.
I have no idea why the gateway address is rejected when I configure both adapters the same way, but only enable one of them, but resetting one of them to dhcp, before configuring the other one as static has avoided that problem. How do I solve the second problem of re-establishing the DNS connection when switching to wired. I'm running W7-64.
I want the PC to have a static IP of 192.168.1.10 and I want to be able to use wireless normally but be able to plug it in and switch over to wired when I want a higher data rate.
I thought this would be as easy as disabling the wireless adapter and enabling the ethernet adapter, however when I configure both adapters with the static ip (or different ones) and set 192.168.1.1 as the gateway on both, Windows blanks out the gateway address when I enable the adapter and will not connect.
I found if I configure the ethernet adapter as dhcp and disable it and configure the wireless adapter as static and enable it, that the wireless connection works fine and can access my DNS, however when I configure the wireless as dhcp and disable it, and configure the ethernet adapter as static and enable it, that it will connect to the internet but cannot access my DNS. If I ping the DNS it returns "Reply from 192.168.1.1: Destination net unreachable". If I then reboot the router, the connection is reestablished and the DNS is reachable.
The same thing happens with the wired network after a reboot of the router, if I unplug the cable and reconnect it. The connection is reestablished without DNS, and I have to reboot the router again.
If I disable the ethernet adapter and configure it as dhcp, when it is in that no DNS state, and then configure the the wireless adapter as static and enable it, the wireless connnection is activated with DNS access and no router reboot is required.
I have no idea why the gateway address is rejected when I configure both adapters the same way, but only enable one of them, but resetting one of them to dhcp, before configuring the other one as static has avoided that problem. How do I solve the second problem of re-establishing the DNS connection when switching to wired. I'm running W7-64.