Can you specify that you want to do a LAN transfer over the ethernet and just surf the Internet over the wireless connection? Can you split 'em like that?

8/24/2008 2:10:11 AM

give your wireless a different subnet and set a low metric on it. give your wireless a high metric. make your wireless your default gateway for external traffic. your lan transfers will goto the low metric first and be like fuck, I can't get to that ip from there, then fallover to your wired connection. so by default everything will try to goto wireless (browsing and aim and such) and things that can't get where they're going that way will goto wired.

8/24/2008 10:37:03 AM

the better question is

why would you ever want to do this

8/24/2008 2:38:41 PM

Because I maxed out the LAN and still wanted to surf.

8/24/2008 11:38:15 PM

ummm... how are you maxing out the LAN? There's these things called data packets and QoS thingy.

8/24/2008 11:42:31 PM

I dunno, I'm not technically proficient. I just don't want to interfer with these enormous data transfers and I want to surf while I'm waiting for this stuff to get done.

8/24/2008 11:48:25 PM

If the router handling the wired LAN is the same as the one handling the wireless, it's extremely unlikely this will help you in the slightest.

[Edited on August 25, 2008 at 12:56 AM. Reason : ]

8/25/2008 12:56:11 AM

damn

8/25/2008 1:12:43 AM

yeah, there is no way around this if you're sharing the same router.

8/25/2008 1:37:52 AM