On 20 Apr 2007 04:11:49 -0700,
BKnibbe@gmail.com wrote in
<1177067509.147605.54550@e65g2000hsc.googlegroups. com>:
>Hello. I live in a dorm type enviornment (barracks - soldier in the
>army) and have a wireless connection coming into my laptop that
>supplies me with internet from a guy down the hall. Yesterday, I
>hooked up my personal Linksys router to the LAN connection so that I
>could run my NeoDigits Helios X3000. The X3000 streams video, music
>and pictures from the computer through the network onto any television
>set, including HiDef. Anyways, when I enable my LAN connection so
>that I have both, LAN and wireless, enabled, I can no longer surf the
>internet. The connection over the LAN to the X3000 is fine. The only
>thing I can figure, is that since both the internet and the X3000 use
>TCP/IP connections, all programs automatically try to access the
>internet through the LAN instead of the wireless connection. How can
>I change this?
What OS? If Windows, the route "metric" determines which network
connection will be used, so you'll need to set the metric to give Wi-Fi
priority over wired. Then use ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) to
extend the Wi-Fi connection to the wired port.
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Best regards, FAQ for Wireless Internet: <http://Wireless.wikia.com>
John Navas FAQ for Wi-Fi: <http://wireless.wikia.com/wiki/Wi-Fi>
Wi-Fi How To: <http://wireless.wikia.com/wiki/Wi-Fi_HowTo>
Fixes to Wi-Fi Problems: <http://wireless.wikia.com/wiki/Wi-Fi_Fixes>
Using both wired and wireless connection on laptop coming from different routers 
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