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Old October 22nd 18, 06:14 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Mark
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Default Network Steering

Windows 7 Pro PC.

Connected to the AT&T Router connected to the Internet via both:
WiFi 5GHz
Cat5 cable directly to the router.

I see both at the tray window showing the connections available.

I am trying to see what the speed is for each.

How do I steer to the connection I want to test ?

What tests can I do ?
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Old October 22nd 18, 06:39 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Paul in Houston TX[_2_]
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Mark wrote:
Windows 7 Pro PC.

Connected to the AT&T Router connected to the Internet via both:
WiFi 5GHz
Cat5 cable directly to the router.

I see both at the tray window showing the connections available.

I am trying to see what the speed is for each.

How do I steer to the connection I want to test ?

What tests can I do ?


Turn off or unplug the one that you don't want.
It's not a good idea to have both connected at the same time.

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Old October 22nd 18, 07:09 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Paul[_32_]
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Mark wrote:
Windows 7 Pro PC.

Connected to the AT&T Router connected to the Internet via both:
WiFi 5GHz
Cat5 cable directly to the router.

I see both at the tray window showing the connections available.

I am trying to see what the speed is for each.

How do I steer to the connection I want to test ?

What tests can I do ?


https://superuser.com/questions/2378...lan-connection

"In elevated command prompt, run

route print

Look at the IPv4 Route Table section.

The first lines in that section will look something like this:

IPv4 Route Table
================================================== =========================
Active Routes:
Network Destination Netmask Gateway Interface Metric
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 152.35.56.1 152.35.56.65 21 ===
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 152.35.156.1 152.35.156.15 10019
127.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 On-link 127.0.0.1 306
127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 On-link 127.0.0.1 306
127.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 On-link 127.0.0.1 306

Run

ipconfig

to see which of the first two lines is Local Ethernet vs Wireless connection.
"

In the example, the first line has a metric of 21 and thus is preferred
with respect to the other four lines of stuff. (A metric of 1 has the
highest priority.) The first line happens to be wired.

This article isn't too important, but it shows some idea of
how Automatic Metrics are assigned for various pieces of hardware.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...or-ipv4-routes

There is a claim here, that "ordering" the items in a
Network Control panel, also assigns a metric.

https://superuser.com/questions/2476...t-is-available

This picture shows the ability to "push around" the interfaces,
and "raise" one interface ahead of the other. You highlight
an item and use the arrow buttons on the right.

https://i.stack.imgur.com/JBFlE.png

After you OKed out of that, you could run "route print" for
kicks right afterwards.

The fun you can have with computers... So many knobs,
so little time.

*******

The "what can I test" is harder to answer. I personally
have one utility I use, if "computers" are involved. If
I have to deal with a Buffalo NAS, I'm stumped for a good
test. Sure, I can plop files off my RAMDisk onto the NAS,
but all that measures is the crappy NAS write speed, and
it doesn't single out the Wifi or wired connection specifically
and tell me why they're not working as they should.

We need tests which single out portions of the plumbing.

For computers, there are things like PCTTCP and other
flavors of TTCP on other platforms. There are also
some sorta streams thing (more "professional" transfer
tests I've forgotten the names of). For the NAS, I'd want
to break in via an administration console, and if there
is Linux in there, arrange an "echo" capability on the
NAS side, so I can do network tests. Which could be
difficult to do.

Paul
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Old October 22nd 18, 02:31 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Char Jackson
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On Sun, 21 Oct 2018 22:14:11 -0700, Mark wrote:

Windows 7 Pro PC.

Connected to the AT&T Router connected to the Internet via both:
WiFi 5GHz
Cat5 cable directly to the router.

I see both at the tray window showing the connections available.

I am trying to see what the speed is for each.

How do I steer to the connection I want to test ?

What tests can I do ?


How deep do you want to go? What other equipment do you have available
that you can put into service? For example, if you have a spare router,
configure one of your interfaces with static routes to use it as its
gateway. Then, any traffic destined toward the destination of your
static route will use that interface. Or, if you have a spare PC,
configure one of your interfaces to prefer that connection to contact
the second PC.

What you're asking is pretty easy, but there are a lot of moving parts,
so some basic networking knowledge and a spare router or PC will be a
big help.

--

Char Jackson
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Old October 22nd 18, 02:41 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Char Jackson
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On Mon, 22 Oct 2018 00:39:05 -0500, Paul in Houston TX
wrote:

Mark wrote:
Windows 7 Pro PC.

Connected to the AT&T Router connected to the Internet via both:
WiFi 5GHz
Cat5 cable directly to the router.

I see both at the tray window showing the connections available.

I am trying to see what the speed is for each.

How do I steer to the connection I want to test ?

What tests can I do ?


Turn off or unplug the one that you don't want.
It's not a good idea to have both connected at the same time.


Just for the record, multiple network connections are definitely better
than one (think link redundancy with automatic failover), as long as you
don't expect both links to be used simultaneously by default. You *can*
use both links simultaneously, but it takes a bit of configuration.

Without that manual configuration, the link with the lowest metric will
get all of the traffic. If that link disappears, the link with the
higher metric will get promoted and will begin taking all of the
traffic. You'd likely notice a hiccup, but failover to the second link
would happen automatically, without user intervention. A hiccup is
better than a full outage.

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Char Jackson
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Old October 22nd 18, 07:00 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Paul in Houston TX[_2_]
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Default Network Steering

Char Jackson wrote:
On Mon, 22 Oct 2018 00:39:05 -0500, Paul in Houston TX
wrote:

Mark wrote:
Windows 7 Pro PC.

Connected to the AT&T Router connected to the Internet via both:
WiFi 5GHz
Cat5 cable directly to the router.

I see both at the tray window showing the connections available.

I am trying to see what the speed is for each.

How do I steer to the connection I want to test ?

What tests can I do ?


Turn off or unplug the one that you don't want.
It's not a good idea to have both connected at the same time.


Just for the record, multiple network connections are definitely better
than one (think link redundancy with automatic failover), as long as you
don't expect both links to be used simultaneously by default. You *can*
use both links simultaneously, but it takes a bit of configuration.

Without that manual configuration, the link with the lowest metric will
get all of the traffic. If that link disappears, the link with the
higher metric will get promoted and will begin taking all of the
traffic. You'd likely notice a hiccup, but failover to the second link
would happen automatically, without user intervention. A hiccup is
better than a full outage.


Thanks Char.

 




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