Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Fokke Nauta Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-11 Subject: Re: Can't connect to laptop Date: Mon, 5 May 2025 13:38:40 +0200 Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net 71y0RuOrKhcnOra36hkcqg4ubh0d+UBi5lmGVnlzNOwamg7uRz Cancel-Lock: sha1:O6du32agmBB04Y86pU+2sjp1FY8= sha256:8E0ZJrXnSSsequDnfQdI6wiDuqR4Tb/N1PFqAPv6tYM= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.15.1 Content-Language: nl In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.os.windows-11:19062 On 05/05/2025 12:44, Java Jive wrote: > On 2025-05-05 11:01, Fokke Nauta wrote: >> On 03/05/2025 00:12, Andy Burns wrote: >>> Graham J wrote: >>> >>>> Can you connect all the computers via Ethernet cable directly to the >>>> router, for testing? >>> >>> Though let the O/P be aware that changing from wifi to wired ethernet >>> will change the machine's IP address for pinging. >>> >> >> No. Every machine gets it's IP address from the router, depending on >> their MAC address. > > In your normal set up, yes, but if, say for testing purposes, you > connect a PC by cable instead of by WiFi, or vice versa, All pc's are connected by cable. Both laptops are connected by wifi from the AP. I'm not going to change that. > then the MAC > address of the WiFi netcard will be different from that of the cable > netcard, so there will no longer be any guarantee that it will still > have the IP address you expect it to have when connected by whatever > method is usual for that particular PC. > Fokke