Direct PC to PC communication

[MDM]

Set priority for a USB Ethernet adaptor...
Easier to turn off WiFi

 

[ASC76]

TBH I'm surprised his Chromebook has an Ethernet adaptor at all, I thought they were all wireless-only. OTOH if he's using some sort of USB Ethernet adaptor that could explain why the WiFi adaptor has a higher priority. In any case, the first step would be to disable the wireless connection completely and see if that fixes the problem.

Yes, I am using an Ethernet adaptor for the Chromebook. Fingers crossed disabling the Wi-Fi resolves my issue.

 

[ASC76]

Disabling the Wi-Fi before connecting the Chromebook via Ethernet does seem to resolve all the issues I was having.

Thanks all.

 

[Smokindog]

Disabling the Wi-Fi before connecting the Chromebook via Ethernet does seem to resolve all the issues I was having.

Thanks all.

Are you disabling the WiFi adapter on the Chromebook when connecting via Ethernet?

 

[sfx2000]

Chromebooks - if one has USB-Ethernet, it has priority over WiFi...

Challenge here is that the USB-Ethernet driver support is pretty limited in ChromeOS...

 

[sfx2000]

BTW - CRTL-ALT-T on ChromeOS brings up a handy shell interface...

network_diag
Usage: /usr/bin/network_diag [--date|--flimflam|--link|--show-macs|--wifi|--help|
           --wifi-mon] [host]
    --date:      Diagnose time-of-day
                 ([host] must support SSL)
    --dhcp:      Display DHCP information
    --flimflam:  Diagnose flimflam status
    --hosts:     Diagnose SSL connection to Google hosts
    --interface: Diagnose interface status
    --latency:   Diagnose link-latency to default gateway
    --link:      Diagnose all network links
    --no-log:    Do not log output
    --proxy:     Specify proxy to use with tests
    --route:     Diagnose routes to each host
    --show-macs: Display full MAC addresses
    --wifi:      Display driver-specific debugging information
    --wifi-mon:  Monitor WiFi performance metrics
    --help:      Display this message
    [host]       Hostname to perform web access test on  (default: clients3.google.com)

 

[ASC76]

Are you disabling the WiFi adapter on the Chromebook when connecting via Ethernet?

I am now yes, and this has resolved the issue, allowing me to achieve 100Mbps between the PC and Chromebook.

 

[ASC76]

Chromebooks - if one has USB-Ethernet, it has priority over WiFi...

My Chromebook was clearly not prioritising the USB Ethernet Adaptor. I had to disable Wi-Fi before plugging in the Ethernet adaptor to resolve the issue.

It maybe the way HP have configured this Chromebook, and it might be different for other Chromebooks.