Wired and wireless connection at the same time

[cnapier39428]

Is it possible to have two computers connected to a wireless router with internet access but have them networked together via Ethernet but not from that router, let's say a switch with no internet connectivity and have them use internet through the WiFi but talk to each other over Ethernet at the same time? Like let's say my WiFi on my router was too slow for steam in home streaming so I had to wire them together via Ethernet but they still had to be connected to the internet to log in to steam and my router has no Ethernet port? If so what's the correct way to do this

[KTFO|SGTmoody]

In effect no. you would either make a loop or the PC would prefrence doing it over wireless anyway

 

But good news!    just disconnect the wireless on one machine and create a bridge on the PC that has the wireless.  So you are bridging the wireless nic to the wired NIC on the primary PC that connects to the wifi. that way you still get internet connectivity and the speed of a wireed connection

[MrBucket101]

@cnapier39428

 

It should work, with some tweaking

 

Setup the ethernet adapter with a static IP address and no gateway then use DHCP on the wireless adapter. Do the same on each computer and you should be able to communicate with each device over ethernet. Use 192.168.x.x for the wireless adapter, and 10.x.x.x for the private ethernet switch.

 

You might even be able to do this without a switch, and just use a crossover cable instead. Not too sure on that part.

[KTFO|SGTmoody]

 

You might even be able to do this without a switch, and just use a crossover cable instead. Not too sure on that part.

 

Yes cross over cable would definatly work.   Allthough you could try it with a normal cable some newer NIC's will support the auto sensing stuff so you dont have to worry about cross over and straight through cables any more, Just depends on how old the device is and the manufacture