Lose Internet With 2 network Connections
I have 2 seperate networks setup in my home, the wireless one (xxx.xxx.x.2) has the internet connection and the wired (xxx.xxx.x.1) is just a local network for sharing among my computers with a my book world edition network drive (which isn't visable to 7 anyway but thats the next issue to deal with after I get the networks cooperating). I had this setup before on my previous laptop which was also 64-bit 7 and it would properly route internet through the wireless but be able to see my computers and drive on the wired network. Now, when I connect the wired connection to the windows 7 home 64-bit computer at the same time as im connected to the wireless it refuses to load any more webpages. When I am only on wireless it is fine, and when I have both plugged in it can access both routers so I know both connections are working. I have changed network device priority so that the wireless is higher than the wireless so the internet would hopefully route through the wireless but no luck. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what might be set wrong in this configuration?
August 11th, 2010 12:23pm

Hi, Since you are running in multi-homed environment, you need to pay attention to the default gateway. Default Gateway Configuration for Multihomed Computers To check and change gateway configurations, you need to manually set the routing table. The IP routing table: TCP/IP The metrics of the gateways are not decided by Windows 7, but hardware and drivers. That is the reasons why other computers work properly but this computer does not. Please manually add static routes for the Internet connections, make sure that the metrics it is the highest. You can also add routes for broadcast or multicast with the Interface to be the wired connection, make sure that the metrics is higher than the default routes for broadcast and multicast. After doing so you may be able to browse the network computers with the wired connection.Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.
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August 13th, 2010 10:28am

Thanks for those links. I just changed the metric to manually place my wireless higher and this fixed my particular issue. On a side note it also noted that my wireless had internet and my wired was no internet but it would still not load any web pages or anything.
August 13th, 2010 12:37pm

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