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Re: Can I make wired network failover to wireless?
Posted: 2009-10-14 03:41pm
by Baka^Ni
Couldn't you bridge the two connections together? Or create a virtual network interface and bridge the wired and wifi connections to it? Perhaps the microsoft loopback adapter?
Re: Can I make wired network failover to wireless?
Posted: 2009-10-14 07:54pm
by Netko
Some drivers offer this - I have such a setup with my Toshiba laptop and I believe any Toshiba laptop that supports their configfree utility offers this. Its pretty nifty - the transition takes maybe 2-3 seconds and works great for browsing or p2p. It does however brake traditional downloads. My only annoyance with it is that it pops up a window announcing the transition when it happens. I know there is a way to suppress that since it was configured that way in the preinstalled Vista that I had on before moving to 7, but I haven't been able to find an option to turn off the popups yet.
Re: Can I make wired network failover to wireless?
Posted: 2009-10-14 08:00pm
by Stark
<posts about how it's seamless on OSX>
If your laptop is set to automatically join wireless networks but the cable has priority, shouldn't this work anyway? How's the cable 'fall out' anyway, is the jack broken? RECRIMP IT MAN!
Re: Can I make wired network failover to wireless?
Posted: 2009-10-14 09:27pm
by atg
Destructionator XIII wrote:Stark wrote:If your laptop is set to automatically join wireless networks but the cable has priority, shouldn't this work anyway?
The problem is all the open connections disconnect when it switches. This is annoying when I'm in the middle of doing some work on a remote server and have to basically start over, even though the net was only down for half a second.
I'd imagine that would be because your wired and wireless connections would have different IP addresses, wired disconnects and network traffic cant send to that IP any more.