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Quoting Doug Nelson <[log in to unmask]>: > 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 I'm not sure how much good it will do, but going to the "advanced" section in the tcp/ip config menu in the control panel will let you go from automatic metric to a user specified one. That might give some control and change the display, possibly? I read about this somewhere but I can't remember where. I do know there is a value in the registry that is the value of automatic. Probably that can be searched for. --STeve Andre' Political Science