wired network independent of wireless

osc89er · 28 Aug 2006 at 21:51

I have a router (wrt54gs) connected to two clients by wireless. However wireless doesn't cut the mustard when transferring large files between computers so what I want to do is take a 100mb wired connection directly between these clients (bypassing the router) to get simple windows filesharing going.

Does anyone know exactly what settings are necessary to get this working.

Router 192.168.1.1 with DHCP server enabled.

Client A: wireless 192.168.1.100 via DHCP
wired 192.168.1.125 manually assigned, 255.255.255.0 subnet, no gateway, no dns server

Client B: wireless 192.168.1.101 via DHCP
wired 192.168.1.124 manually assigned, 255.255.255.0 subnet, no gateway, no dns server

Should I be putting the wired network addresses on a different subnet?

Anyone have ideas about exactly how to get this working

csmager · 28 Aug 2006 at 21:56

Why not just connect them both to the router with wires? Achieves the same thing, and it's far, far less complicated.

EDIT:
Just realised that the reason *may* be that while the two pcs are in the same room, the router probably isn't. Erm, yes. Different subnets would be wise. Shouldn't be too much of a problem.

osc89er · 28 Aug 2006 at 21:58

Yep, that's why. One cable between the two computers is acceptable. Two going all the way downstairs is not.

tolien · 28 Aug 2006 at 22:00

You'd have issues with Windows preferring one connection (probably the wireless) over the other. The options in Network Connections -> Advanced Settings might be useful.

Easiest option would be disable the wireless while you're doing it. As a slight bonus, it then doesn't make any odds what subnet you use.

csmager · 28 Aug 2006 at 22:02

What I'd do (although it does involve making some equipment you've bought redundant) is buy a switch and a wireless bridge.

You connect your two pcs and the bridge to the switch, configure the bridge to connect to the access point/router. Everything then works seamlessly.

osc89er · 29 Aug 2006 at 01:05

csmager said:
What I'd do (although it does involve making some equipment you've bought redundant) is buy a switch and a wireless bridge.

You connect your two pcs and the bridge to the switch, configure the bridge to connect to the access point/router. Everything then works seamlessly.

Which is fine if you want to spend a little money to make things easier for you.

However, I got it working. Keeping the wired IP address on the same subnet (192.168.1.*) would cause my net connection to drop out. But it works fine if I just put it on a different subnet (192.168.0.*)