On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:05:56AM -0400, Al Puzzuoli wrote:
> After some poking around, I believe I've found the cause of my slow
> performance issue this morning. I have a Windows 7 laptop, which is
> sitting on a dock and plugged into a working ethernet port. However, my
> wireless switch was on, and the machine had a very weak connection to a
> wireless network. I've seen this before and just never put two and two
> together. Once I turned off the wireless switch and rebooted the
> machine, everything began working fine. Does anyone know how I can
> verify the metrics on my network connections and insure that ethernet is
> getting priority?
Yeah, good luck with that. You can see the route metrics by running
"route print" (at least under XP), and you can add/delete routes using
the "route" command, but I don't know where to set default metrics for
new connections. Generally, the wired interface will have a better
metric, but I have seen occasions where my browser traffic will prefer
the wireless interface, while other non-browser connections remain on
the wired link. I generally just kill the wireless when I'm docked.
Doug
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