Local ore wireless, how to choose?
One computer with 2 Ethernet local networks card and 1 wireless and 1 bluetooth connection. All function well. How can I decide which connection Internet explorer shall use, ore for a vpn connection to my office? On vpn I can choose between call a connection
first or nothing?
July 30th, 2010 7:43pm
To choose the connection to use, you should change metrics in the route table.
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July 30th, 2010 7:46pm
This is a link that will help you to configure your windows route table: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/route.mspx?mfr=true
(Here I suppose that each of your network card is connected to a different network)
Example of the commands that you can use:
You are going to connect to a VPN server (ip address 193.95.66.20) and you want to use your wireless card to do it. Let's suppose that you gateway address for this card is 192.168.2.1.
You are also going to connect to Internet and you want to use a LAN card and your gateway in this case is 10.0.0.1.
To obtain that, you can type the following commands:
route add 0.0.0.0 mask 0.0.0.0 10.0.0.1 metric 20
route add 193.95.66.0 mask 255.255.255.0 192.168.2.1 metric 10
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July 30th, 2010 7:55pm
If you are not used to configure route tables, you will find some difficulties to do it.
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July 30th, 2010 7:57pm
Hi,
Ethernet connection is stable, but you need to connect to a router with a physical network cable. Wireless connection is much more convenient. Both Ethernet
and wireless network connections need a DSL modem or a router. Bluetooth connection is also one kind of wireless connections, but the signal coverage is around 10M generally and the network speed is lower. If you want to use it to connect to the Internet,
no router is needed, you just need a mobile phone which can support Bluetooth and Internet.
At that point, I will use Ethernet or wireless connections for general Internet usage and only use Bluetooth connection when no sufficient Internet resource
is available.
For more information, please read the following Microsoft articles:
Start here to set up a network
Connect to Bluetooth and other wireless
or network devices
10 tips for improving your wireless network
Hope the above information is helpful!
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August 2nd, 2010 5:55am