controling which programs use which network card

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well my problem is i have two nics one wireless and one wired been using my
wired for net useage. well i want to connect to a router and share my media
to a different network. if i use my wireless connection it moves all my net
traffic to it leaving my wired network empty. my wired network is 10mb and
the other wireless network is 1.5mb. i do not want to use the wireless for
internet use at all i just want to share files on it and play lan games
 
well my problem is i have two nics one wireless and one wired been using my
wired for net useage. well i want to connect to a router and share my media
to a different network. if i use my wireless connection it moves all my net
traffic to it leaving my wired network empty. my wired network is 10mb and
the other wireless network is 1.5mb. i do not want to use the wireless for
internet use at all i just want to share files on it and play lan games
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To use the wireless connection for LAN access and the wired connection
for Internet access:

1. Assign a static IP address to the wireless connection. Don't
assign a default gateway address to the wireless connection, since
Windows uses the default gateway to access the Internet.

2. Assign a metric value to each connection, giving the lower value to
the wireless connection:

a. Open the Network Connections folder.
b. Right click the desired connection.
c. Click Properties > Internet Protocol (TCP/IP).
d. Click Properties > Advanced.
e. Un-check "Automatic metric".
f. Enter a number between 1 and 9999 for the "Interface metric".
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well my problem is i have two nics one wireless and one wired been
using my wired for net useage. well i want to connect to a router
and share my media to a different network. if i use my wireless
connection it moves all my net traffic to it leaving my wired
network empty. my wired network is 10mb and the other wireless
network is 1.5mb. i do not want to use the wireless for internet
use at all i just want to share files on it and play lan games
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Step 1 is to verify that these two "different" networks have different
subnet addresses. Usually the subnet address is the first three
numbers of an ip address. If both networks use 192.168.1.xxx
addresses, then, yes, you will have a problem. Modify one of the
router configurations to make one network 192.168.1.x and the other
192.168.2.x.

HTH,
John
 
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