briantonkinson
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For reasons I won't bore you with I find myself in the following situation:
I have a local area network where my PC and my Synology NAS are attached to the same 1GBps switch, this network is also linked to the Internet via a Powerline adapter. This is fine for the NAS but I'm not getting the full Internet bandwidth I need from my PC. So I've brought a decent wifi adapter and get much better speeds to the Internet using this.
However it means access between PC and NAS is slow because it has to go PC > Wifi > Router > Powerline > Switch > NAS (with Powerline being the weak link here).
Is it possible to configure Windows so I can have both my Ethernet adapter and Wifi adapter enabled and route all local traffic (subnet 255.255.255.0) to Ethernet and anything else via wifi?
At the moment my workaround is to just use wifi but if I need to transfer large amounts of data between PC and NAS I switch off Wifi and enable the ethernet port (so I get slower Internet access but very fast access to my NAS).
Note not having internet on the ethernet network is not an option because the NAS needs internet access.
Hoping someone can help - thanks in advance.
I have a local area network where my PC and my Synology NAS are attached to the same 1GBps switch, this network is also linked to the Internet via a Powerline adapter. This is fine for the NAS but I'm not getting the full Internet bandwidth I need from my PC. So I've brought a decent wifi adapter and get much better speeds to the Internet using this.
However it means access between PC and NAS is slow because it has to go PC > Wifi > Router > Powerline > Switch > NAS (with Powerline being the weak link here).
Is it possible to configure Windows so I can have both my Ethernet adapter and Wifi adapter enabled and route all local traffic (subnet 255.255.255.0) to Ethernet and anything else via wifi?
At the moment my workaround is to just use wifi but if I need to transfer large amounts of data between PC and NAS I switch off Wifi and enable the ethernet port (so I get slower Internet access but very fast access to my NAS).
Note not having internet on the ethernet network is not an option because the NAS needs internet access.
Hoping someone can help - thanks in advance.