I'm not great at networking and could use some help....
My brother's business recently added a wireless cable/dsl router to their internet connection and then used USB adapters on all of the computers around the office to allow them to share the internet connection via a wireless network.
One of the existing computers is part of a wired network, and it has a netgear card that is set up with TCP/IP that has a fixed IP, gateway, and DNS servers. The wired network and the wireless network have different names. The wired network does not have access to the internet.
They've been able to get the wireless USB adapter set up and the TCP/IP settings are using default settings to obtain an IP address automatically. The wireless USB adapter on this computer can connect to the wireless network fine.
However, if the wired network is plugged in, the wireless internet doesn't work. No web pages come up at all. If the wired network is unplugged, the wireless internet does work and web pages can be retrieved.
Any ideas as to what I need to do to make the wired and wireless networks work together so I can both access files on the server via the wired network and access the internet via the wireless?
(Ultimately I'll probably go completely wireless, but for right now, I'd just like to solve this problem.)
Thanks in advance!
Hork
My brother's business recently added a wireless cable/dsl router to their internet connection and then used USB adapters on all of the computers around the office to allow them to share the internet connection via a wireless network.
One of the existing computers is part of a wired network, and it has a netgear card that is set up with TCP/IP that has a fixed IP, gateway, and DNS servers. The wired network and the wireless network have different names. The wired network does not have access to the internet.
They've been able to get the wireless USB adapter set up and the TCP/IP settings are using default settings to obtain an IP address automatically. The wireless USB adapter on this computer can connect to the wireless network fine.
However, if the wired network is plugged in, the wireless internet doesn't work. No web pages come up at all. If the wired network is unplugged, the wireless internet does work and web pages can be retrieved.
Any ideas as to what I need to do to make the wired and wireless networks work together so I can both access files on the server via the wired network and access the internet via the wireless?
(Ultimately I'll probably go completely wireless, but for right now, I'd just like to solve this problem.)
Thanks in advance!
Hork
