How to set browser to connect to internet using specific device?

[715]

I have 2 WiFi receivers. One which was built-in, primary, laptop WiFi receiver and the other one would be a USB WiFi receiver I'd plugged in. I connected to 2 different routers which both routers aren't bridged or connected in any other ways. I wanted to access an IP from my second router while I can browse the internet using my first router using my browser. My first router would be my apartment's and the second would be my shop's (which was downstairs). I'd like to be able to bridge them but it seems quite impossible. I wanted to access my shop's CCTV broadcasted using my shop's router while I could stream videos and like using my apartment's router (because I don't want to occupy all the customer's bandwidth myself). The problem is my browser, currently using Chrome, won't open my shop's CCTV IP address. When I tried to open the settings of my shop's router (by default 192.168.1.1), I opened my apartment's router settings instead. How to setup chrome or at least tell chrome that I want to access something from this WiFi device not that other one?

I am using Windows 8 (Don't judge but they work no further different than Windows 7)

[Fred]

Already answered this once. You can NOT unless you start manually configuring your devices. That is NEVER good as it requires reconfiguring every tie you connect to any other network. And the moment you have 2 connections you are slowing your connection as the machine has to stop and determine whcih to use for each packet sent. It must determine which network it is relevant to, decide whethr it is local or remote network and hten determine the gateway. EVERY packet. you are also messing up BOTH networks as you have 2 routers on the same subnet. TOTAL disaster. They must each have individual subnets. and if that is how little you know about computers and networking you should get someone who knows what they are doing to set this up for you. You could end up with NO Internet connection at this rate, or even passing incorrect packets to each side and both your ISPs could terminate your service. That is extremely dangerous to public network traffic.

[Tracy L]

If you want both devices active at the same time one of the routers needs to be configured to a different IP range on the local settings! Move the "shop" router to 192.168.5.1 instead of 192.168.1.1. It isn't hard to change.

However, you could just click the disable button on one adapter. Right click the adapter icon, click disable. That way you could select which adapter was in use at any particular time. Click disable on the "apartments" connection/adapter use the "shop" adapter. Reverse the choice to go back and forth.

Your other option is simply port forward to your CCTV connection on the shop router and go to it from the public IP! Then you only need one adapter period.

[Pierre]

Both networks need to be in different IP ranges as Tracy mentioned. Leave the interface of your home router in dhcp, you will get a default route from thst one snd can surf the internet like that. The 2nd interface, in your shopnetwork, should be set to manual ip, pick a free ip outside the dhcp scope of that network and do NOT set a default gateway. Like this you can manually connect to the camera in this network and do the rest of your surfing over your home internet connection.

Bridging is btw no rocket science either, keep ctrl pressed and select both interfaces, there is now a right-click option available called 'bridge', only do this if you know what your doing, it's always a bad idea having two DHCP servers on the same network...

[efflandt]

If you have 2 different network connections to two different routers, besides each router having to be a different network on their LAN, they would both typically give you a default gateway, and your computer would tend to follow the first default gateway it comes to in the routing table of your computer.

So unless one of the routers has a way to add a network specific route for an IP range you are trying to reach through a specific router in its DHCP settings (unlikely), you would need to manually configure that network specific routing on your computer itself. Otherwise your PC would always tend to use only one of the routers for all internet access.