Windows 10: How to directly connect 2 Windows 11 PC's through a second network card

Hi, my name is David. I have searched and not been able to find specific details of how to accomplish the following. I have 2 PC's that currently each have a single network card that connects to my router, providing their access to the internet and shared folders between all PC's on the network. I want to add another network card either 5GB or 10GB to each, so they can communicate directly with each other on their own private network via a very short 3 feet or less ethernet CAT6/CAT6a/Cat7 cable. I am not sure if this needs to be a special cable; I saw an article saying the connections

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Losing network connection

Hello Dear, if you have a laptop or a PC with a wireless network adapter, you can see a list of available wireless networks and then connect to one of those networks. The wireless networks will only appear if your PC has a wireless network adapter installed, the adapter is turned on, and the wireless access point is in range.

1. Click Start, click Control Panel, click Network and Internet Connections, and then click Network Connections.

2. In the left pane, under Network Tasks, click View available wireless networks.
In case, If you don't see the network you want to connect to, click Refresh network list. If you see the network but the signal is weak, move the PC closer to the wireless router.

3. Click the network you want to connect to, and then click Connect.

4. If you're connecting to a secure network, type the security key, and then click OK.

I Hope you solve out your query soon.

 

No network connection

Hello Graham,

To resolve your concern about wireless network issues, please click the link below and follow the suggested troubleshooting steps:

• Fix network connection issues in Windows 10

Let us know how it goes.

 

Connect a device directly to your computer via Ethernet

Up until now, I've had an Ethernet connected throttle quadrant used for flight simulation connected to my PC via a Gbit switch. The other day, I decided to start using my wireless connection for my PC instead to get rid of the long Ethernet cable I've had going through half of the apartment. I then figured maybe I could get rid of the switch as well and simply connect the TQ directly to the now free Ethernet port on my PC. This seems to work just fine which is great news.

One side-effect I've noticed though is how I need to always disable and then enable the network card in my PC the TQ is connected to in order to have it connect successfully. Another option is to always keep the TQ switched ON. The problem seems to be, when I start my PC with the TQ switched OFF, looking at the status of the network card in my PC, it says the Ethernet cable is disconnected. Which makes sense to me as long as the TQ is switched OFF. Since that means nothing is found at the other end of the network cable.

However, when switching the TQ ON, I was hoping/thinking that would send some form of signal to the network card in my PC to let it know the TQ is now up and running. This doesn't work though. I keep seeing the message how the Ethernet cable is not connected for the network card. Until I disable and then reenable the network card in Windows. Seconds later, the TQ connects normally.

This isn't a big deal really. Quite fast to disable/enable the network card whenever I'm about to use the CFY TQ. Would have been nice though if there was a way to avoid this extra step.

Was thinking if there is maybe some network setting in Windows for the network card that would allow this. Where I need to tell Windows how the network card is now used for a direct connection to the TQ. Rather than serving as a "normal" network card being connected to a wireless router like I had it setup before.

Anyone in here knows what might cause this and if it's possible to fix it somehow?