I have a Laptop with a mouse and keyboard, and a mac with mouse and keyboard and sucky internet connection on the mac. They both have wireless, and I have a crossover cable to connect them. How can I force Synergy/ShareMouse traffic to only go over the crossover cable to remove the sucky latency between the two?
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You don't need a crossover cable if either system (or both!) have gigabit ethernet. How are the laptop and mac set up? Static IPs? – Journeyman Geek Apr 28 '14 at 00:08
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Ya, they have static ip addresses, but I'm trying to connect through crossover, and not wireless. – user318798 Apr 28 '14 at 00:12
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This is covered on synergy's support Q&A site
In detail, you want to set up the laptop and mac to use a different IP address range - in your shoes I'd go with a simple static IP address on either side, then tell the systems to connect using those IP addresses, rather than the hostnames.
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But won't that still send all the information over wireless? I don't have ethernet access from either of my machines, so my only options are to be stuck with sucky wireless or crossover. – user318798 Apr 28 '14 at 00:13
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not if you tell it to *specifically* use the ip address. You'd also (rather obviously) use addresses from a different range from the wireless connection – Journeyman Geek Apr 28 '14 at 00:17
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http://superuser.com/questions/299901/direct-ethernet-connection-between-two-wirelessly-connected-windows-7-laptops/299907#299907 is what I did with windows systems. You'll need to adjust one side for your mac – Journeyman Geek Apr 28 '14 at 00:42
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My Mac keeps saying "connection refused" in Synergy after I followed those guides. – user318798 Apr 28 '14 at 02:11