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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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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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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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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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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. -- Char Jackson |
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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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