In article <1869231A-B800-4AFE-BFF2-1793BDB32C4A@microsoft.com>,
HrundiBakshi <HrundiBakshi@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>> In my tests, it's 100% reliable. Windows always uses the connection
>> with the lower metric when two connections are identical in every
>> other respect.
>
>What if they are not identical in every respect? I, for example, have a
>wired and a wireless connection. I gave the wireless connection a lower
>metric than the wired one, but after a while the Internet defaulted to the
>wired one.
>
>In other words, can one be sure that by toying around with the metric option
>one can control Internet traffic? Or is it that no such sheer metric tweaking
>will ever be capable of firmly establishing the default NIC, especially in a
>scenario where the two or more NICs have wildly different capabilities and
>speeds?

In my tests, Windows always uses the connection with the lower metric
when two connections are identical in every other respect.

To be sure what's happening, you have to look at every entry in the
route table. Open a command prompt window (Start | Run | cmd) and run
this command to write the route table to a file:

route print >route.txt

Then, open the "route.txt" file and copy/paste it into a newsgroup
reply.
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