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Sam

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9th Aug 11 at 15:33

At the moment I am having to use a Vodafone mobile broadband dongle due to a lack of landline (thanks Sky + previous owner

).

I used a Netgear DGN1000 (i.e. N150) router at our old place which I have set up my network on originally, and assigns a static IP to various systems/printers etc.

Is there some way I can use both simultaneously? If I'm using the dongle and I connect to the router wirelessly I can't access the Internet (DNS).

I am using OpenDNS on the dongle as the Vodafone DNS is shit, I've tried setting the DNS servers in the router config to the same but to no avail.

If I want to print something or access my NAS box I have to disconnect the Internet

VrsTurbo

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9th Aug 11 at 15:49

you'll be on different subnets so it wont work with out some funky routing or an application on the laptop.

Andrew

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9th Aug 11 at 16:48

Apart from purchasing something like a Draytek 2820 which has the option for USB fail over i can't see how you would do this.

Sam

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9th Aug 11 at 18:57

Arse.

Nismo

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9th Aug 11 at 19:20

Im guessing the vodafone dongle uses DHCP?

Can you not connect to vodafone, do an ipconfig, replicate the IP settings then add a secondary IP into the TCP/IP settings on the same range as your wifi network? that way it should see the devices, but route through the vodafone gateway?

Sam

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9th Aug 11 at 19:48

Found the answer, and I can confirm it's all working beautifully together now!

http://ivanz.com/2009/07/08/multiple-network-connections-at-the-same-time-on-windows/

Basically I unticked "automatic metric" for the TCP/IP settings for each device, set the metric to 1 for the dongle and 9999 for the WLAN and it worked!