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I've recently moved into my dorm at my new school. Everything is done via wifi but I would like to still have my own private network inside of my dorm (I have several computers). I went out and bought a Switch which I quickly attached to each of my comptuers.

I've assigned each computer a unique address and a subnet address. I want to be able to use things such as Synergy across all of my computers but to this point, I have yet to succeed.

Everything seems to want to go through the wireless network instead of my local network. The network is also seen as unidentified which means it forces it to be a public network (not what I want - I want it to be a home network so I can share directories and stuff...) I have set the two IP's to be different (192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2).

Do any of you know how I can set this all up?

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I've done something similar to this with two systems and there's no reason it should not work- From what i can tell the mistake you're making is using the same subnet on both networks - they're different enough, but there's a chance that your school DHCP server is using the rest of the 192.168.x.x subnet.

You might want to try using the 10.x.x.x subnet instead. Where there's an option you might also be able to bind specific applications to specific interfaces - for synergy try the -a option on the server to set the server to listen to a specific ip address.

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