This may help
From: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/894564
You may have several network connections that are connected to different networks. Or, you may have a program that uses the first connection in the network connections list. You may want to make sure that a certain network connection is at the top of the list.
When you install Microsoft Windows XP or Microsoft Windows 2000, the order of the connections may vary depending on how the network adapters are enumerated.
You can use the methods that are described in this article to reorder adapters and bindings and to change the interface metric on the network adapters. This article describes how to perform the following tasks:
Change the binding order of network adapters
Change the interface metric on a network adapter
Create a fixed metric by changing the InterfaceMetric registry value
Set the interface metric by using a script
Influence the binding order in Windows XP during unattended setup
Change the network provider order
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Mel Micke [log in to unmask] 517/ 43 2-7302
Michigan State University
Academic Technology Services - Systems Integration
309 Computer Center, East Lansing MI 48824-1042
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From: Doug Nelson [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 12:07 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] Think I found the problem (was, RE: [MSUNAG] Network or DNS issues This Morning?)
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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