No ADSL connection when LAN connected!

Y

yurolex

New Member
Joined
Oct 25, 2008
Messages
3
Reaction score
0
I use Vista Ultimate and I have 3 network adapters: one for ADSL WAN connection, other for LAN (provided by my previous local ISP) and the third is used to connect directly to my laptop. When I try to use ADSL connection it won't start unless I uplug the LAN cable (it just says that Username is invalid on the domain as LAN is used to provide internet by my previous ISP, DHCP enabled, LAN IP assigned by DHCP). After connecting ADSL I plug LAN back in and all is fine. It's sort of okay with me but not my wife... she's not a techie. When I used WinXP I connected to Interned through WAN using RasPPPoE protocol and connector that would assign specific network card to this ADSL connection. Can anyone advise what I should do to connect to Internet without having to unplug LAN cable?
 
When you "try to use the ADSL connection", it is trying to find the ADSL modem on your LAN.

You'll probably find that in the sequence of things, that that network card is the first network card, and PPPOE seems to select the first network card in the sequence as the one to use.

You can try swapping the LAN network card and the ADSL network card around, by swaping the Network cables and the actual TCP-IP settings for each.

It's a long shot, otherwise what you can also do, is unplug the cable from the router instead of the PC, which may be easier to do for your wife.

Or even ... show the network icon of the LAN connection in the bottom-right-icons area (Setting in network connection properties), and before connecting, teach her to disable that LAN connection with a right click of the mouse-disable before connecting the ADSL.

There is no way to route microsoft's PPPOE to a specific card, RASPPPOE is binded to a specific card, but I recon you're probably using Vista, and I don't know how well RASPPOE will work in vista.
 
I'm not sure how to do it via Windows but it will be something in the line of setting your PPPOE connections to the specific interface. There might be an option in your Dial-up settings.
Otherwise take a look at your routing table in command prompt: "showroutes", I think it is.
 
stoke said:
I don't know how well RASPPOE will work in vista.
Click to expand...
It won't work (RasPPPoe) at all as the official website says they have no plans for Vista as PPPoE in Vista has different architecture. But thanks for the advice. Swapping NICs does nothing good. I hope there is a solution. Maybe some special SW.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top
Sign up to the MyBroadband newsletter
X