Filtering connections between an ethernet LAN and a wireless WAN.

[DangerousPie03]

I have a router that I use as a LAN (connected by ethernet for faster file transferring between computers and such) and another that I use as a WAN (connected by wifi for normal web browsing and such). The only problem is that I have to disable my ethernet adapter or else sometimes it will tell me that I'm not connected to the internet because it tries to connect through my LAN. Is there any way that I can make a filter that tells certain programs to use the ethernet connection, and some to use the wireless one?

 

[Darkbreeze]

Why are you using two different routers that are both capable of doing the same thing? If it's a lack of ports, you can just plug the second router into one of the Ethernet ports on the first router and then disable the wireless on one of them. You will then be able to use the Ethernet ports on both of them but won't have to different wireless ID's to cause interference and confusion.

Any computer connected by Ethernet cable to a network with an active connection will automatically supercede the wireless connection. You can't use the wireless if you have a connected wired signal. You're problem isn't telling them which network to connect to, it's the fact that you have more networks than you need. You only need ONE network, with both wireless and wired capability, to do what you're wanting to do.

 

[DangerousPie03]

Why are you using two different routers that are both capable of doing the same thing? If it's a lack of ports, you can just plug the second router into one of the Ethernet ports on the first router and then disable the wireless on one of them. You will then be able to use the Ethernet ports on both of them but won't have to different wireless ID's to cause interference and confusion.

Any computer connected by Ethernet cable to a network with an active connection will automatically supercede the wireless connection. You can't use the wireless if you have a connected wired signal. You're problem isn't telling them which network to connect to, it's the fact that you have more networks than you need. You only need ONE network, with both wireless and wired capability, to do what you're wanting to do.

Yes, I would do that if it weren't for the fact that the router I use as a WAN is too far away to connect through ethernet. To describe the situation further, I have two computers that I'm trying to control with a single mouse and keyboard using a program called Mouse Without Boarders. There is high latency when trying to do this over the wifi network. It works fine over the LAN, but everything else tries to use it as well. Is there no way to change the fact that the computer will try to connect through the ethernet first? Thanks for responding, by the way.

 

[Darkbreeze]

So far as I'm aware, there is no way to make Wi-Fi take precedence over Ethernet with default priorities. You can try this, but I don't know if it will interfere with your other configuration.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/31846-42-select-wireless-internet-wired-internet

 

[DangerousPie03]

So far as I'm aware, there is no way to make Wi-Fi take precedence over Ethernet with default priorities. You can try this, but I don't know if it will interfere with your other configuration.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/31846-42-select-wireless-internet-wired-internet

Thanks for posting that. In that thread, there was a link to a thread on Windows 7 forums. One of them had the idea of changing the metric of the ethernet connection, and that solved it completely. Now all I have to do is configure Mouse Without Boarders to work across the ethernet connection, and I'm golden. Thanks again.

 

[Darkbreeze]

No problem. Good luck.