Network question

[emgman]

I have a question maybe someone out there can help.
I have two computer running XP sitting side by side. They both have
Internet access through USB wireless adapters running from a router in
a different room. My problem is that this connection is very slow for
transferring files between these two computers so I've connected a
croxxover cat5 between the two computers and assigned them the ip's
192.168.100.1 and 192.168.100.2
This setup works fine but only if i disable the wireless cards with IPs
(192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2) otherwise the communication between the
two seems to default to the wireless cards and not the wired
connection.

Is there a way I can play around with subnet to make this work without
having to disable the wireless every time??

Thanks in advanced

 

[Guest]

Try using class B addresses for the flip cabled cat 5 connection:

IP 172.1.1.100 & 172.1.1.101
Subnet Mask 255.255.0.0

Make sure you connect to the machines via IP and you'll save yourself some
delays as well. E.g Start - > Run \\172.1.1.101\C$ etc.

 

[emgman]

That worked, Thank you!!

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

Try using class B addresses for the flip cabled cat 5 connection:

IP 172.1.1.100 & 172.1.1.101
Subnet Mask 255.255.0.0

Make sure you connect to the machines via IP and you'll save yourself some
delays as well. E.g Start - > Run \\172.1.1.101\C$ etc.

That worked, Thank you!![/QUOTE]

What made it work was connecting to the other machine using the IP
address of its LAN connection instead of its computer name.

Changing the IP addresses was unnecessary, and I recommend changing
them back to 192.168.100.1 and 192.168.100.2, with subnet mask
255.255.255.0. 172.1.1.100 and 172.1.1.101 are public addresses that
shouldn't be used on a local area network, because that can prevent
you from accessing some Internet sites.
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