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Old September 22nd 19, 04:24 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default WiFi or Cat 5

On 23/09/2019 04:07, BeeBee wrote:


Both are hooked up and active but how do I tell which one is accessing
the Internet or the path for a file copy ?


The easiest way is to unplug the cable and then see if you can still go
online!!.

Another way is to monitor the incoming and outgoing traffic in the
properties panel but you are too thick to know this.

What's the point of having two connections?


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Old September 22nd 19, 05:26 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default WiFi or Cat 5

BeeBee wrote:
At home.
Laptop is showing connection to my WiFi and the Cat5 cable is also
plugged in.

Both are hooked up and active but how do I tell which one is accessing
the Internet or the path for a file copy ?


The interfaces have a notion of "metric" or a weighting that
helps decide the path. The rule here, has probably been applied
to your two hardware paths.

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

When a routing device has a routing decision to make, it
needs a cost function, to help it figure out what to do.
Coin flips aren't that useful.

The "route print" command can show some numbers,
but you can see in the article here, people aren't
all that happy when fiddling with it.

https://serverfault.com/questions/23...ute-on-windows

So the first step is probably the "route print", to see how
radically different the two interfaces are right now.

Paul
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Old September 22nd 19, 01:16 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default WiFi or Cat 5

On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 20:07:15 -0700, BeeBee
wrote:

At home.
Laptop is showing connection to my WiFi and the Cat5 cable is also
plugged in.

Both are hooked up and active but how do I tell which one is accessing
the Internet or the path for a file copy ?


Go to "network properties" and disable WiFi. Or disable the
WiFi card in "hardware".
Cat5 will (should) be faster. And slightly more secure.
That's how my PC is set up.
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Old September 23rd 19, 02:09 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default WiFi or Cat 5

BeeBee wrote:
At home.
Laptop is showing connection to my WiFi and the Cat5 cable is also
plugged in.


Both are hooked up and active but how do I tell which one is accessing
the Internet or the path for a file copy ?


I think network cables get the priority over wifi if both are connected.
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Old September 23rd 19, 04:07 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default WiFi or Cat 5

At home.
Laptop is showing connection to my WiFi and the Cat5 cable is also
plugged in.

Both are hooked up and active but how do I tell which one is accessing
the Internet or the path for a file copy ?
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Old September 23rd 19, 10:00 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default WiFi or Cat 5


Thanks Paul you responded to my question.

Unfortunately others went off a side road.

I know how to turn off WiFi or disconnect the Cat5 cable but sometimes
both are plugged in and I really want to know which way the data is
flowing. If only to alert me to turn off the wifi. This PC is
physically all over the place and not always known it state.

Do you know if there are Windows APIs that can help with this ? I could
write a little app to differentiate the paths.



Paul wrote:
BeeBee wrote:
At home.
Laptop is showing connection to my WiFi and the Cat5 cable is also
plugged in.

Both are hooked up and active but how do I tell which one is accessing
the Internet or the path for a file copy ?


The interfaces have a notion of "metric" or a weighting that
helps decide the path. The rule here, has probably been applied
to your two hardware paths.

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


When a routing device has a routing decision to make, it
needs a cost function, to help it figure out what to do.
Coin flips aren't that useful.

The "route print" command can show some numbers,
but you can see in the article here, people aren't
all that happy when fiddling with it.

https://serverfault.com/questions/23...ute-on-windows


So the first step is probably the "route print", to see how
radically different the two interfaces are right now.

Paul


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Old September 23rd 19, 10:15 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default WiFi or Cat 5

BeeBee wrote:
I know how to turn off WiFi or disconnect the Cat5 cable but sometimes
both are plugged in and I really want to know which way the data is
flowing.* If only to alert me to turn off the wifi.* This PC is
physically all over the place and not always known it state.

Do you know if there are Windows APIs that can help with this ? I could
write a little app to differentiate the paths.


I don't know how to do it on WinXP. My linux network manager for a
laptop w/ ethernet and wifi has a field for assigning connection
priority for auto-activation (both are set to auto); the default for its
wired is 999; the default for its wifi is 0.

Under those priorities, the device will 'always' connect by ethernet if
it is connected and will only connect by wifi if there is no ethernet
available. That seems like a good strategy to me, as opposed to getting
a report of which one is connected WAN and which one is not.

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Old September 23rd 19, 10:37 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default WiFi or Cat 5

Mike Easter wrote:
My linux network manager for a laptop w/ ethernet and wifi has a field
for assigning connection priority for auto-activation (both are set to
auto); the default for its wired is 999; the default for its wifi is 0.


Win10 on the same device can be configured to get a different NAT IP
addresses w/ both wifi and ethernet. When I first checked it today, the
wifi was disabled (I may have done that earlier) and the ethernet
connection was named my wifi's SSID (interrobang !?). I don't know what
it going on there. With configuration to enable the wifi, both ethernet
and wifi were connected using the SSID name, but different names for the
adapters, ie Realtek vs Broadcom.

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Old September 23rd 19, 11:11 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default WiFi or Cat 5

BeeBee wrote:

Thanks Paul you responded to my question.

Unfortunately others went off a side road.

I know how to turn off WiFi or disconnect the Cat5 cable but sometimes
both are plugged in and I really want to know which way the data is
flowing. If only to alert me to turn off the wifi. This PC is
physically all over the place and not always known it state.

Do you know if there are Windows APIs that can help with this ? I could
write a little app to differentiate the paths.


The automatic assignment of metrics, likely favors
the wired connection. But since it can be set manually,
the user can modify how it works.

I don't have any WiFi here, so have nothing to test it with.

I have Bluetooth dongles but no Bluetooth headphones.

A common theme here is, I never seem to finish a project.

All my networking is wired.

Paul
 




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