2 networks

[Microsoft]

I'm running Nextel's wireless broadband for my Internet access through a
PCMCIA card. I am also using Ethernet to connect to a local LAN that runs a
couple of machines.

Is there some way to specify that my Internet connection should always be
the Nextel connection, or to give a priority to which connection should be
tried first when an Internet task is requested?


What happens now is that I can't have both the Nextel connection and the LAN
connection enabled at the same time. If they are both enabled,when I try to
hit the Interenet for web browsing or email, the task times out because it
is trying to route the Internet traffic through the LAN connection first.
By disabling the LAN connection, it immediately goes to the Interent through
my Nextel connection.

 

[Doug Sherman [MVP]]

It would be helpful to know whether there is an Internet gateway on your LAN
and how the IP address is assigned to your LAN adapter. My guess is that
you have default gateways assigned to both adapters, so try this:

1. Open a command prompt - Start/Run cmd ENTER.

2. ipconfig /all ENTER.

3. If there is a default gateway assigned to the LAN adapter, you have 2
choices:

Manually configure the TCP/IP settings on the LAN adapter and do not assign
a default gateway or DNS server; or possibly use the Automatic Metric
feature - See:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;299540

4. If this does not turn out to be a gateway conflict issue, check you
network connections. If they are bridged, try deleting the bridge.

Doug Sherman
MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP

 

[Interrogative]

It would be helpful to know whether there is an Internet gateway on your
LAN
and how the IP address is assigned to your LAN adapter. My guess is that
you have default gateways assigned to both adapters, so try this:

Similar prob here. Wired network and attempting to add a wi-fi as well.
Wired network attached to one computer which is a gateway to internet and
initially set up to work only with the wired network, all fine that way.
When adding the wi-fi network which is just 2 external USB wi-fi NICs, I
cannot get the wi-fi network to work through the wired one using XP Home. I
assumed I would need XP Pro and go to domain name rather than using
workgroup name and that would be that.

All machines (mixture of 98SE and XP everywhere) work fine until wi-fi is
attempted. I thought I would be able to BRIDGE the two networks but
apparently not as that doesnt work either. All machines manually assigned
IPs, all except the one attached to internet have an assigned gateway IP
which is the machine attached to Internet and all have DNS servers assigned
by IP on them, those server IPs being the ISP's numbers. Nothing I do seems
to make the wi-fi work with the wired network.

So am I right in thinking you cant get the two networks working with XP home
this way? There are 2 XP Home and 2 98SE on the network now and attempting
to add another XP Home wirelessly. I had never attempted to add another
network to this network before as I had no need to do so thus thought I
would be able to bridge. When I bridge, the newer machine sees the one
attached to the wi-fi NIC and nothing else. Wont get out to Internet either.

Should I leave IP numbers manually assigned on wi-fi and wired and take out
the gateway everywhere and DNS numbers? Is that what you mean?