Windows XP help - Networking

OGER wrote:

Win XP Pro laptop.

Connected to Internet via WiFi and/or Cat5 to Modem.

How can I determine which is being used ? Some app ?

How can I select one over the other ? Some App ?

Can both be used at the same time ?

http://icrontic.com/discussion/90839...apters-windows

start : settings : network connections : Advanced : Advanced : Adapters and Bindings : Connections

Click a network connection, then use the arrows on the right,
to move the connection priority up or down. Typically users
select the Wifi entry (floating at the top) and move it
down one location, so that the CAT5 LAN has priority.
It would be an "unusually good" Wifi connection, to beat
the LAN, but it could happen. (The 60GHz flavor of Wifi can
do 700MB/sec at a distance of five feet. Real field tests
did not achieve the claimed figure though.)

LAN
Wifi

Now, if the CAT5 cable is disconnected, the Wifi will work.
If the CAT5 cable is connected, then the Wifi connection is
not needed.

However, there is some notion of sharing.

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One contributor here, seems to reserve the "route" command for only specific scenarios.

https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/6...rnet-adapters/

Route command.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/pre...=technet.10%29

Metric - this is a cost metric, which can in principle be used to
control which of two RJ45 connectors gets which percentage
of traffic headed to the Internet.

What we need now, is a good worked example with a Wifi and a NIC.

The first solution above, it makes it look like
"all or nothing" as far as Connections go. If you had two NICs
in the "Connections" window, you would think it would simply
cut off the second NIC.

So I run the terms through Google and get this.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/...windows-xp-and

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

This is changing the Interface Metric. At least I could find
the control, in the GUI, without using the "route" command.

https://s13.postimg.org/cpl7dlgcn/se...ion_metric.gif

Say I have two connections

NIC metric = 329
Wifi metric = 329

then we would assume that 50% of traffic goes to NIC and 50% of
traffic goes to Wifi. That's because the metrics are equal.

Without the metric setting, leaving it on "Auto", perhaps the
Connections menu overrides this ? And then setting the metric
to a finite number, balances the packets as desired ?

I've never used this, and don't even have enough NIC bits
and pieces to make a convincing test case.

Summary: The above demonstrates Microsoft thought about it.
The devil is in the details.

Paul