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littledave

littledave

littledave

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Quick question guys

Our landline has gone down at work meaning we have no internet on the router.

We are surviving on wireless network adapters which are connecting to our neighbours Wi-Fi.

The problem is that if we leave the cat5 cable plugged in and try to access the internet even with the Wi-Fi connection, we get page not displayed.

Sharing files and folders is also not working on the Wi-Fi which is why we still need the wired network and for our network printers ect.

Any suggestions
 
You've got 2 default gateways running - 1 over the ethernet and 1 via wireless.
In your case your default gateways both route to the internet and it's having to choose between them.

Wireless probably has a higher metric meaning your ethernet is being prefered....but obviously you have not access to the internet that way.

You have 2 options. Either remove the default gateway from the wired connections or set the adaptor metric manually to 1 for wifi and 2 for the wired.

If you are using the router to serve DHCP addresses to the wired clients then you might be able to stop it from serving a default gateway address - this would be the easiest way.
 
PistolPete said:
You've got 2 default gateways running - 1 over the ethernet and 1 via wireless.
In your case your default gateways both route to the internet and it's having to choose between them.

Wireless probably has a higher metric meaning your ethernet is being prefered....but obviously you have not access to the internet that way.

You have 2 options. Either remove the default gateway from the wired connections or set the adaptor metric manually to 1 for wifi and 2 for the wired.

If you are using the router to serve DHCP addresses to the wired clients then you might be able to stop it from serving a default gateway address - this would be the easiest way.
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I need the network so unpluging the cable is a no no, How do i go about the DNS gateway, the router is a dlink 635 btw
 
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