Using ethernet for file transfer and wifi for internet

[senpaidev]

I have a laptop and a workstation. Both have wifi in them. I have connected both on the same wifi as well as connected both to each other using a single cat 5 ethernet cable. Both have gigabit internet NICs. The way I have connected them using ethernet is by assigning ip address of one machine as the gateway of the other.

Say Laptop has IP 192.168.1.2 & Gateway 192.168.1.1

Workstation has IP 192.168.1.1 & Gateway 192.168.1.2

 

This way both the pc's can see each other on the same network even when the wifi is turned off.

 

The problem arises when I'm transferring files between them, either windows switches to wifi mid way or when file transfers happen using the ethernet I'm unable to use the internet. I have also tried changing the metric. IP should be not an issue as for the wifi I have assigned them IP in the range 192.168.1.1XX

 

What should I do inorder to make windows use ethernet for file sharing and wifi for internet.

[SCHISCHKA]

the gateway is how you tell your computer where to find the internet. You should not be assigning gateway for just file transfer, try leave gateway blank and only set the IP.

[That_PC_Kid]

Openly telling the internet your IP address? Wait till I get my hacker friend to hack and DDoS you!!! Muhahahahaha

[senpaidev]

1 minute ago, That_PC_Kid said:

Openly telling the internet your IP address? Wait till I get my hacker friend to hack and DDoS you!!! Muhahahahaha

Try it. It's the address for my intranet.

[LienusLateTips]

5 minutes ago, That_PC_Kid said:

Openly telling the internet your IP address? Wait till I get my hacker friend to hack and DDoS you!!! Muhahahahaha

It's intranet. Do you know anything about networking?

[SCHISCHKA]

8 minutes ago, That_PC_Kid said:

Openly telling the internet your IP address? Wait till I get my hacker friend to hack and DDoS you!!! Muhahahahaha

please do everyone a favour and DoS address 192.168.1.1 from your computer right now.

[3rrant]

19 minutes ago, SCHISCHKA said:

please do everyone a favour and DoS address 192.168.1.1 from your computer right now.

I do this everyday and I swear nothing ever ha . . .

[mariushm]

You can install a FTP server on one computer and use a FTP client to connect to it using the IP address. The packets will naturally flow through the gigabit (wired) connection.

You can probably do some network interface priority / order thing with your network cards , so that any data that goes to local IPs is routed to the wired network card but I can't be bothered to search / look up how to.

 

Linus did something like this in his videos about using 10gbps fiber cards for local transfers between computers and keeping regular network card for internet and other crap .. see those videos where he explains about priority and stuff.

 

[Donut417]

17 hours ago, That_PC_Kid said:

Openly telling the internet your IP address? Wait till I get my hacker friend to hack and DDoS you!!! Muhahahahaha

Thats a class C address. They are not internet routable. 

[That_PC_Kid]

41 minutes ago, Donut417 said:

Thats a class C address. They are not internet routable. 

It was a joke...

[newgeneral10]

If your laptop is running windows, you can pull up the Network and Sharing center, click on change adapter properties, then hit the alt key to bring up the extra tabs up top.  then click on the Advanced tab, then advanced properties.  You should see your wifi and ethernet connections.  If you give your wifi higher priority (higher on the stack) then your wifi will work for the internet first, and if your wifi cant find the address (in the case of your workstation) then it should fall back to using the ethernet.