Static IP addresses on multiple adapters simultaneously

I Honestly havn't seen anyone else try this or I might have a standard connection method for this already. From what I read Windows does not like using the same default gateways for multiple network adaptors although I thought there might be a chance using the TCP/IP window.

It seems like everything goes wrong as soon as Windows realizes you are trying to use the same gateway for both network connections. Let me try this on my laptop and see what it does.

Ok using standard DHCP I was able to connect to either wired or wireless at the same time or switch between one or the other quickly without any problems, I did have to plug the wired internet cable in twice before Windows picked it up, but that was only the first time I tried, after that it just worked.

I'm a bit surprized that Windows didn't complain about using both nics at once. I think that is because they are both connecting to the same network but the wired connection is dominant as soon as it's plugged in.

Looks like it works for me with my particular router and network adaptors using DHCP. I havn't tried using static IP's for this yet but it's working with DHCP with no special TCP/IP set up required. Homegroups also works either way so the network doesn't seem to care one way or the other.

When I do an ipconfig /all it shows the the wired connection is being used when both are connected and it goes back to the wireless connection automatically when I unplug the wired connection. I don't seem to be having any problem doing this for some reason, maybe DHCP works better for this hard to say but it should also work with static IP's.

The picture below shows with both connected although the wired connection is the one being used when they are both connected at the same time. Windows doesn't seem to complain about this set up and the connection speed is fast as usual this way. What ever happens seems to occur automatically without me having to do anything.

Yes it seems that doing this with static IP's is the problem for some strange reason. Perhaps using static IP's keeps windows from switching back and forth between network connections so easily. It might work better to set up the static IP's in your router rather than using the Windows IPv4 connection properties window.

In some routers like mine you can reserve an IP for any DHCP enabled machine without using static IP's so that port fowarding still works because the named machine will get the same IP and therefore can always foward the correct ports.

It also seems that other people have had problems setting up dual nics with static IP's using the TCP/IP window. This Technet thread shows this as a problem but the actual solution is still in question.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/...b-1b6db90e2273