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Using "route add" to tell my computer to use a direct ethernet connection instead of wifi?

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Mar 15, 202638808 views
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2 PCs are involved. Both are connected to the internet via Wifi on the same router. I can ping to/from each other and share folders flawlessly, but I'd like to be able to set a direct Ethernet link between them to speed up file transfers AND keep the Wifi connections (no gateway). So I plugged my R…

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Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : Sam-PC    
Primary Dns Suffix  . . . . . . . :    
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : …

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Fix for: Using "route add" to tell my computer to use a direct ethernet connection instead of wifi?

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Aha, trick question :), it caught me, too. The Gateway should be set to your IP. I played with it; if you do a it will list interface numbers at the top of the output, I'm going to call your ethernet interface . The command would then be as follows …

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