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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 ? |
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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. ******* 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 |
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