WeaponX
Aug 1 2006, 08:51 PM
| | Hi, is it possible for me to use both my wireless and wireline connections at the same time? I'm primarily online using my wireless PC card for the laptop. But sometimes I want to transfer some big files over to the other laptop I have in the house. Doing this through the wireless card takes ages since I'm also using the internet and the wireless transfer is limited to 54Mbps...in the ideal world 
I want to use a network cable and connect between the two laptops using that method. That way it "should" give us almost twice the speed if this is possible.
Can it be done? If so, what do I need to do?
Both laptops are using Windows XP Home Edition.
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linux-penguin
Aug 3 2006, 02:56 PM
Im not sure this will solve your problem but why dont you just get a router? Ive got 2 PC's and 1 wireless Laptop, all got high speed internet and neither slows down in performance when used at the same time. I've got a Belkin ADSL Modem with High Speed Mode Wireless G-Router. You could get them pretty cheap, under £70, probably no more then $100 (look on ebay and you'll get it for half the price  ) Hope thats any help. ;/
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Jeigh
Aug 3 2006, 03:29 PM
Yera router would be the way to go. Plus if you have wireless and (from the sounds of it) multiple comps in the house you likely have one already, so just plug both in and transfer away.
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WeaponX
Aug 8 2006, 10:34 PM
Yep, been using router for a long time already. But I'm mainly on wireless in my house. I don't think this is possible...using both wireless and wireline, at least not without changing some setting first (if that's even possible). I tried many times already...I plugged the cable in with the wireless turned on. It won't be able to use both. Both say they detect the connection, but when I try to transfer something it's taking a long time. I tested them more and from what I found out, the first device that's connected to it will be the main one it's using. So plugging in the second one seems to be useless. Any ideas if it's even feasible to do this? I have some other questions. On my router, I set an beginning and an ending IP address to limit the number of computers connecting to it at once. For some reason one of the laptops I have is set to an IP out of this range, but strangely enough it goes online without any problems. Why is this possible? If I want to use a crossover cable, what do I need to do on these Windows XP laptops in order to get them to see each other? Aren't they using TCP/IP to do this? I know when I was trying to network between a Windows 98 and XP computer, I had to use NetBEUI. But in this case, I have two XP machines and they won't see each other even when everything else looks ok. These are the same two laptops I'm working on now at my house that DO connect when plugged in to the router. Do I need to assign an IP address to the laptops? My current setup is manual IP addressing in the router... Thanks.
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demolaynyc
Aug 10 2006, 09:37 PM
Umm that sounds very amateurish but I haven't thought of that and never tested it so you go do it. It kinda makes sense in a weird way but I don't think it is going to work so go do it now! and tell us if it works or not cuz it's a pretty good idea even though it has a noobish concept. If it does work go post it but if it doesn't post it anyway so I can double up my internet speed as well.
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WeaponX
Aug 10 2006, 10:03 PM
That's the problem...I don't know how to make the two connections (wireless and wireline) work together. Whichever one was plugged in first, takes full control. Regarding the doubling internet speed, I don't think this is possible. At least not in most of the cases we have...unless you have a really high connection speed. From my understanding, most home users (all?) can not reach such high speeds anyway. Like my connection, it's only a 3Mbps DSL connection. The network cable is 10/100 Cat5e cable (100Mbps) and the wireless card is 54Mbps. So even if anyone can find a way to connect both, the internet speed shouldn't be increased in any way. I'm not interested in that in my case...I just want to have one line for internet (wireless) and one for data transfer in my home network (wireline). Using wireless is just too slow and when I want to transfer huge files over, I have to disconnect my wireless and use the network cable instead to do this. I still haven't got much time to play around with the crossover cable yet, but if anyone can verify if this can work while I have a wireless connection, that would be great. Otherwise, I'll try to do this when I have more time and report back what happened. Thanks.
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sekhar
Sep 17 2006, 03:54 AM
Yes you can, But you have to contact your system administrator. We are using here in the way at the office having Wired & Wireless networks working simultaneously and with a Broadband connection
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Anthony_
Sep 28 2006, 08:13 PM
You can also setup a home network which allows all the computer in your network weither it be wireless or wired every one in your home network will be access your files but any on not in your home network cant even get to them =)
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abhay
Dec 23 2006, 08:14 PM
If both of your laptops have a ethernet card then: 1. First connect them with the help of a cross cable . 2. Assign them IP addresses of same class manually. 3. Check the connection by pinging each others IP Address. 4. Make the work group same for both of the laptops. 5. Then switch on file sharing on both of the laptops. 6. Then share the files you want to share. I think it will work and there should be no problem with wired and wireless access.
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Artluo100
Jan 1 2007, 08:57 PM
It shouldn't be a problem. I do this all the time with my laptop. I use it wirelessly when I surf the internet and use AIM but I use the hardwire connection when I play online games or games over the network. Just make sure your wireless is disconnected when you do so.
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iGuest
Oct 26 2009, 01:31 PM
yeeaaa
Connect Using Wireless And Wired Line
Well actually larger networks use multiple NIC's, like the labs here at my college. I also have the desire to use wireless and ethernet to "double" my speed. I found that being connected to the ethernet on my laptop and then enabling the wireless will cause my local download speeds to go from 10-20MB to literally a few KB. You would think by now that computers would automatically use every connection it has as much as it can, but it does not appear this way.
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iGuest
Sep 5 2009, 10:13 PM
wireless internet via router 1, file transfers via wired lan router #2 home network?
Connect Using Wireless And Wired Line
I totally hear your problem buddy. I am running3 computers on a wireless router. I also want to transfer files to a centralized pc which has the most hard drive space. From the laptop. Both are on Wireless via router. I have another router of which I'm hoping I can sit both side by side and transfer files from the laptop to the pc(server) via 2nd router running cables rather than wireless. I am wondering as well if this is possible? Will the Laptop and PC both be able to resume internet connections via the wireless router and assume file sharing abilities with the 2nd wired router? If anyone has an answer to this please post
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yordan
Jan 5 2009, 04:44 PM
QUOTE (WeaponX @ Aug 1 2006, 09:51 PM)  Hi, is it possible for me to use both my wireless and wireline connections at the same time? I'm primarily online using my wireless PC card for the laptop. But sometimes I want to transfer some big files over to the other laptop I have in the house. Doing this through the wireless card takes ages since I'm also using the internet and the wireless transfer is limited to 54Mbps...in the ideal world I want to use a network cable and connect between the two laptops using that method. That way it "should" give us almost twice the speed if this is possible. Can it be done? If so, what do I need to do? Both laptops are using Windows XP Home Edition. Thanks. Sorry replying so late. Yes, this is perfectly possible. Simply be careful, if you want to use two different network adapters (your wireless and your wireline) they must be on different logical networks. I guess that your wireless adapter's IP settings are in DHCP mode, and if you type "ipconfig" in a CMD window you will probably see that your IP address is something like 192.168.1.2 So, you can use your wired connexion with a crossed cable between your PC and your laptop for faster file transfers. Simply, manually set your IP address of your wired NIC's on a different network, I would choose 192.168.110.2 for the first laptop and 192.168.110.3 for the second laptop. And no gateway on the 192.168.110.* network, the default gateway will be on the wireless network. I hope that this was clear enough, else do not hesitate asking more info. Regards Yordan
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toby
Jan 2 2009, 01:48 PM
The general point is dual network cards or dual networks. It is barely logically thinkable even with either of those, as much as I'd also like to do it. You can't be two IPs because you normally only have one network card, or the external wireless card takes over. As old as this is... a roundup of facts, which are still true.
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sakmac
Jan 2 2009, 12:23 PM
Of course it is much easier to just get a router, but if that doesn't work for you, there is of course no reason why that shouldn't work if you just connect using a wired cable as long as the two computers are connected. But you should really invest in something that allows you to do everything. Make sure that if you want to transfer media files, try and enable windows media connect, because then you are sure that the networking works, and also if something's wrong indows media connect gives you a plethora of tutorials.
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