Wifi airport to surf and ethernet network access

Sorry if this question has been asked before but I have not found a solution anywhere yet.
Q: How do you set up the airport (wifi) to access the internet to surf the web; while connected to an ethernet network?
Background; this imac is set up at work and can access the public wifi to surf the internet as long as the ethernet cable is unplugged from the back, but to browse the network files and drives and check email to do work the ethernet cable must be plugged in. But its a pain to keep walking around to the back of the mac and plugging in and unplugging the cables.
There has to be a way to set safari to use the airport to access the internet and set mail to use the ethernet ports.
Thanks for the help!

The normal setup would be to an attach a wireless access point to the existing network. Then connect to that device wirelessly. So use something like an airport express. Connect the network cable that normally goes into your mac into the aiport express. Then connect your mac to the airport express wirelessly.

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    Again, this is confgurable in the router, if it has been set. The solution is up to you, either change the IP address ranges so that they are all like 192.168.1.x, or change the LAN port IP subnet mask to 255.255.0.0.
    Let us know what you find.

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