I have 2 pcs each with a lan card and a wireless card and a wireless adsl modem.
Currently all my connections are wireless and work ok, but pc to pc data transfer is slow. I tried connecting the pcs with a cross over cable which gave me the cable lan connection I wanted but removed my internet connections, I think because each pc tries to get to the internet via the cable connections. Can someone tell me how to get the wireless internet plus cable lan to work sensibly ? Do I need to fiddle the IP submasks or can I specify a direct internet route from the shell ?
I have solved this problem myself with a little reading and experimentation, it was the ip addr not the submasks that I needed to change.
I gave the lan cards ip addresses that did not lead to the default gateway. This stops the ip router looking at these connections when it is try to resolve network addresses.
Specifically the default gateway is (the usual one) 192.168.1.1 so I gave the cards static addresses beginning with 193. Both machines can ping each other and are accessible via windows networking.
!!! If anyone knows any reason why 193… shouldn’t be used, or a simpler way of doing this please let me know.
