Can't wrap my head around this problem

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I have a router that I want to use as a hub, and in the other room is
a wireless router connected to the internet.

My laptop has a wifi card and an ethernet card.

My desktop has an ethernet card.

What I want is to be able to browse the internet through the laptop's
wifi but be able to brouse my local network (filesharing, remote
desktop) through the ethernet card.

As long as the ethernet is unplugged from the laptop i can browse the
internet fine, but as soon as i connect the cable I cannot... I guess
the machine is trying to go through the router. I disabled DHCP on the
router and have the ethernet card on the laptop set to a static IP
address, what other settings do i need to change... I have a feeling
the subnet and gateway need to be set to ... something... but what?

any advice would be appreciated
 
It shouldn't be a problem as long as you have:
1) The correct default gateway, DNS, etc on the wireless
2) NO default gateway on the wired.
3) The wired and wireless on different networks (subnets)

Make sure you can ping the router and a computer on your LAN.

....kurt
 
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It shouldn't be a problem as long as you have:
1) The correct default gateway, DNS, etc on the wireless
2) NO default gateway on the wired.
3) The wired and wireless on different networks (subnets)

Make sure you can ping the router and a computer on your LAN.\
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Sounds like they aren't subnets but are actually completely different
networks all into themselves.

I would also use a completely different IP scheme on each network to
avoid confusion.
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Yes, they are completely different (physical) networks, so in order for
Windows networking to find the right path (NIC) to forward traffic to, the
two physical networks must also be different logical (IP) networks.
 
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