Maintaining best connection on WinXP Pro

[Ken]

On 2/28/06, Ralph Sims <ralph at sims.cc> 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...

-Ken

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