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wireless + wired network routing
hello folks,
i have a desktop pc running XP-pro, whose ethernet pci card shares a router (and a printer hooked up to the router) with 3 other computers. It's nice, because the older router - with it's parallel printer port - gives me an easy way to share my (also old!) laserjet printer with my other pc's. i moved my pc upstairs, can't reach the modem with "wire", so got a wireless USB adapter, which is fine for the internet, but for some reason, now that i'm not getting my internet thru the "old, wired" router, I have to actually disable it in the control panel network setup, in order for my wireless USB to function as an internet connection. so, every time I have to print, i have to disable the wireless network adapter, enable the ethernet card, ya-da, ya-da. Is there any way I could tweak the OS to "recognize" the wireless as internet host, and the wired as printer host so I can leave them both turned on? the "wired" printer is shared, on 192.168.2.1, "select device port" is LPT1 the ethernet is labeled "Local Area Connection" and has all the usual items (Client for MS networks, TCP/IP etc) installed. thanks for any advice or suggestions. Dave |
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On Oct 17, 9:42*pm, "Dave" wrote:
hello folks, i have a desktop pc running XP-pro, whose ethernet pci card shares a router (and a printer hooked up to the router) with 3 other computers. *It's nice, because the older router - with it's parallel printer port - gives me an easy way to share my (also old!) laserjet printer with my other pc's. i moved my pc upstairs, can't reach the modem with "wire", so got a wireless USB adapter, which is fine for the internet, but for some reason, now that i'm not getting my internet thru the "old, wired" router, I have to actually disable it in the control panel network setup, in order for my wireless USB to function as an internet connection. so, every time I have to print, i have to disable the wireless network adapter, enable the ethernet card, ya-da, ya-da. Is there any way I could tweak the OS to "recognize" the wireless as internet host, and the wired as printer host so I can leave them both turned on? the "wired" printer is shared, on 192.168.2.1, "select device port" is LPT1 the ethernet is labeled "Local Area Connection" and has all the usual items (Client for MS networks, TCP/IP etc) installed. thanks for any advice or suggestions. Dave Do you mean your router is also a wireless router? If yes, you will need to access the router and double check the settings. Some routers will have a setting that will limit the wireless "connection" from seeing the other connected devices on the router. Or, does this mean you have two "routers?" You can not normally have two routers as Windows will one use one network, usually the first one XP finds. |
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THANKS for the reply ...
no, my router is a "wired" router. No internet connected to it, just 2 or 3 PC's and 1 printer via the router's onboard parallel port. i get my internet thru the USB wireless adapter. just seems that both can't be enabled or I lose my internet. Windows seems to 'prefer' the ethernet as an internet source, and disqualitifes the USB source if the ethernet is enabled. Dave "smlunatick" wrote in message ... On Oct 17, 9:42 pm, "Dave" wrote: hello folks, i have a desktop pc running XP-pro, whose ethernet pci card shares a router (and a printer hooked up to the router) with 3 other computers. It's nice, because the older router - with it's parallel printer port - gives me an easy way to share my (also old!) laserjet printer with my other pc's. i moved my pc upstairs, can't reach the modem with "wire", so got a wireless USB adapter, which is fine for the internet, but for some reason, now that i'm not getting my internet thru the "old, wired" router, I have to actually disable it in the control panel network setup, in order for my wireless USB to function as an internet connection. so, every time I have to print, i have to disable the wireless network adapter, enable the ethernet card, ya-da, ya-da. Is there any way I could tweak the OS to "recognize" the wireless as internet host, and the wired as printer host so I can leave them both turned on? the "wired" printer is shared, on 192.168.2.1, "select device port" is LPT1 the ethernet is labeled "Local Area Connection" and has all the usual items (Client for MS networks, TCP/IP etc) installed. thanks for any advice or suggestions. Dave Do you mean your router is also a wireless router? If yes, you will need to access the router and double check the settings. Some routers will have a setting that will limit the wireless "connection" from seeing the other connected devices on the router. Or, does this mean you have two "routers?" You can not normally have two routers as Windows will one use one network, usually the first one XP finds. |
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On Oct 21, 1:20*am, "Dave" wrote:
THANKS for the reply ... no, my router is a "wired" router. *No internet connected to it, just 2 or 3 PC's and 1 printer via the router's onboard parallel port. i get my internet thru the USB wireless adapter. * just seems that both can't be enabled or I lose my internet. * Windows seems to 'prefer' the ethernet as an internet source, and disqualitifes the USB source if the ethernet is enabled. Dave "smlunatick" wrote in message ... On Oct 17, 9:42 pm, "Dave" wrote: hello folks, i have a desktop pc running XP-pro, whose ethernet pci card shares a router (and a printer hooked up to the router) with 3 other computers. It's nice, because the older router - with it's parallel printer port - gives me an easy way to share my (also old!) laserjet printer with my other pc's. i moved my pc upstairs, can't reach the modem with "wire", so got a wireless USB adapter, which is fine for the internet, but for some reason, now that i'm not getting my internet thru the "old, wired" router, I have to actually disable it in the control panel network setup, in order for my wireless USB to function as an internet connection. so, every time I have to print, i have to disable the wireless network adapter, enable the ethernet card, ya-da, ya-da. Is there any way I could tweak the OS to "recognize" the wireless as internet host, and the wired as printer host so I can leave them both turned on? the "wired" printer is shared, on 192.168.2.1, "select device port" is LPT1 the ethernet is labeled "Local Area Connection" and has all the usual items (Client for MS networks, TCP/IP etc) installed. thanks for any advice or suggestions. Dave Do you mean your router is also a wireless router? * If yes, you will need to access the router and double check the settings. *Some routers will have a setting that will limit the wireless "connection" from seeing the other connected devices on the router. Or, does this mean you have two "routers?" *You can not normally have two routers as Windows will one use one network, usually the first one XP finds. Ok! You would then know that XP was never truly designed to have two "different" networks active at the same time. You will need to learn out to set up different "network metrics" for the two different network adapters. Here is a web site that gives a "good" starting of the info: http://www.ezlan.net/metrics.html |
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On 17/10/2010 4:42 PM, Dave wrote:
hello folks, i have a desktop pc running XP-pro, whose ethernet pci card shares a router (and a printer hooked up to the router) with 3 other computers. It's nice, because the older router - with it's parallel printer port - gives me an easy way to share my (also old!) laserjet printer with my other pc's. i moved my pc upstairs, can't reach the modem with "wire", so got a wireless USB adapter, which is fine for the internet, but for some reason, now that i'm not getting my internet thru the "old, wired" router, I have to actually disable it in the control panel network setup, in order for my wireless USB to function as an internet connection. so, every time I have to print, i have to disable the wireless network adapter, enable the ethernet card, ya-da, ya-da. Is there any way I could tweak the OS to "recognize" the wireless as internet host, and the wired as printer host so I can leave them both turned on? the "wired" printer is shared, on 192.168.2.1, "select device port" is LPT1 the ethernet is labeled "Local Area Connection" and has all the usual items (Client for MS networks, TCP/IP etc) installed. thanks for any advice or suggestions. What you have to do is disable the routing functions on your old wired router and let the new wireless one handle all of that. So that means you'll have to go into the old router's setup screens once, and disable its DHCP client functions, disable its WAN port (i.e. the port that connects to the Internet), and reset its internal IP address to 192.168.x.2 rather than 192.168.x.1. That's because routers usually default to 192.168.x.1, and you can't have both your old router and new router have the same IP address inside your LAN. Physically, you will no longer use the old router's WAN port anymore, and you'll have to take a wire from the old router's LAN port to one of the LAN ports of the new router. Do *not* connect the old router to the new router's LAN via the old router's WAN, it *has* to be LAN-to-LAN only. Yousuf Khan |
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