Re: Maintaining best connection on WinXP Pro

On 2/28/06, Ken <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2/28/06, Ralph Sims <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > I would like to keep my evdo card, my 802.11 adapter and my lan connection
> > all up and running simultaneously.  The object would be to have WinXP select
> > the "best speed" based on some criteria.  In that manner I think I can
> > seamlessly roam between networks and always be assured of the fastest
> > connection.  There has to be some helper app to do this, but Google didn't
> > yield anything useful except a registry hack which didn't work.
> >
> > Here's what I'm seeing...  I connect via my LAN and get an IP using DHCP (or
> > static, depending).  I plug in the evdo card and my gateway changes to that
> > of the card.  I'd like to keep the LAN connection as the gateway and when I
> > unplug from it, drop to the evdo.  If I have the 802.11 nic enabled along
> > with the LAN and the evdo card and the ethernet NIC the evdo still takes
> > over.
>
> I cant speak for Windows, but I know in MacOSX changing the order of
> your network connections in system preferences should have the desired
> effect. I would imagine windows has some concept of binding order...

Maybe this will help:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/894564/en-us


I just skimmed over it, but it looks promising.

-Ken


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