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2 Net adpators on one laptop

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  • 11-12-2008 4:45pm
    #1
    davkav
    Registered Users Posts: 508 ✭✭✭


    Hey guys,

    Hope someone can help me out here. On my laptop in work I have two ethernet ports, one onboard and one pcimca. The onboard is connected to the work LAN/internet and the other is to machines I work on.

    My problem is that when I just have the onboard ethernet hooked up i can view the internet and server with no delay.

    As soon as I plug in the machine network the net goes slow. I know this is probably down to the laptop checking both connections to see which has the access required but is there any way to solve this problem to speed up my connection when both cables are plugged in.

    Hope Ive explained this well and someone can help

    Cheers
    Dave


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    ethernet
    Registered Users Posts: 3,568 ✭✭✭ethernet


    You've pin-pointed it yourself! Your machine will see two gateways and get confused.


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    davkav
    Registered Users Posts: 508 ✭✭✭davkav


    ethernet wrote: »
    You've pin-pointed it yourself! Your machine will see two gateways and get confused.

    Any way of defining the onboard as the gateway to internet and server?
    as in maybe tell mozilla to use 192.168.x.x as internet gateway?


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    _CreeD_
    Registered Users Posts: 4,148 ✭✭✭_CreeD_


    Go to your Network Properties, Properties of your NICs, TCP/IP Properties - Advanced and untick "Automatic Metric" on both. Set the one you want to use as your real gateway to something low like 10, then the other to 20. It won't mess up your local connections as they take precedence.


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    davkav
    Registered Users Posts: 508 ✭✭✭davkav


    Thats the one.

    Thanks _CreeD_ appreciate it


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