Force IE of Firefox to connect through wireless?

chrislocalboy · 25 Jan 2008 at 08:20

Morning all,

Basically I just got my hands on a wireless USB adapter, I bought it because at work internet browsing was not a problem a couple of months ago and everything was accessible, now they must have hired some goody 2 shoes who is blocking even the most ridiculous sites and now browsing has in quite times or at lunch is just pointless.........

However.......

We have a backup wireless router which the boss has no idea is wireless lol!!!which in the case of the local company network going down we can still support our contract.

People bring their laptops in at weekends etc etc to connect so I thought I'd be sly hence the USB adapter.

Now its installed fine and I've connected it to the network fine...... however I cant stop IE or Firefox connecting through the work proxies........ I've taken out the proxy option, selected direct connection..... nothing...... its trying to got through the LAN at work, also setting it to automatically detect sends it through the work proxies.

Any suggestions????

IAmATeaf · 25 Jan 2008 at 11:03

You'll need to change your default gateway to be the wireless router or run a proxy server that points to the wireless router and then set your browser to use that proxy and setup a network route to the proxy, possibly.

Senture · 25 Jan 2008 at 11:12

If you use windows xp you can use the network setup wizard to tell it what network to use. I've previously used this for inbound communication on one network and outbound over the other.

chrislocalboy · 25 Jan 2008 at 11:13

Senture said:
If you use windows xp you can use the network setup wizard to tell it what network to use. I've previously used this for inbound communication on one network and outbound over the other.

Will this not just direct all traffic as opposed to just HTTP on port 8080???

Senture · 25 Jan 2008 at 11:18

Indeed it does. I was hosting a games server that people connect into, so I only had to se the inbound rules for the server for people to get in, then set windows xp to connect over the secondary connection so all internet browsing and downloading was done over the over the secondary connection. Otherwise I'd have laged the server to kingdom come.

chrislocalboy · 25 Jan 2008 at 12:04

Right I've tried absolutely everything, I;ve tried a piece of software that allows you to set up a proxy on your machine and select which connection to use...... only thing is when you then put these settings into IE or Firefox it just times out.

I'm out of ideas...... though I had it with that piece of software.

Surely this is not that much of an out there kind of idea..... there must be a relatively simple way of doing this!

--ki-- · 25 Jan 2008 at 19:11

simple, setup a route in your routing table, to direct all connections through the wireless adapters connection, and set the metric to 1.