Getting really frustrated with this so perhaps someone can help me figure it out. I use a laptop as my main PC these days. It roams around the house on wifi, then docks at my desk (using the dedicated dock which performs brilliantly) for use with a big monitor. The whole thing is quite nice overall but I'm having network issues.
The dock has GB Ethernet coming straight from the router which lives a few feet away. When I dock, Windows 7 never seems to know to prioritize Ethernet. It keeps the wireless signal despite me trying several methods of fixing it (I googled it, seems lots of people have the same issue). So I manually tell it to disconnect from my wifi network, then I'm good.
However, on the wired connection I can't seem to connect to my NAS which is in the other room, nor can I get to my media server device in yet another room. Those things both work via different routers in wireless bridge mode. They are rock solid as far as that goes - the only problem I have is accessing them when I'm connected to my laptop dock with Ethernet.
What am I missing here? Seems my router, a Netgear R6300 v2, can talk to the wireless bridges (and their subsequent connected devices) perfectly fine via wifi but somehow not through a hard wire. And that makes no sense to me. Anyone know where I should start?
The dock has GB Ethernet coming straight from the router which lives a few feet away. When I dock, Windows 7 never seems to know to prioritize Ethernet. It keeps the wireless signal despite me trying several methods of fixing it (I googled it, seems lots of people have the same issue). So I manually tell it to disconnect from my wifi network, then I'm good.
However, on the wired connection I can't seem to connect to my NAS which is in the other room, nor can I get to my media server device in yet another room. Those things both work via different routers in wireless bridge mode. They are rock solid as far as that goes - the only problem I have is accessing them when I'm connected to my laptop dock with Ethernet.
What am I missing here? Seems my router, a Netgear R6300 v2, can talk to the wireless bridges (and their subsequent connected devices) perfectly fine via wifi but somehow not through a hard wire. And that makes no sense to me. Anyone know where I should start?