topic Wireless Adapter VS FastEthernet NIC in Wireless

Wireless Adapter VS FastEthernet NIC

lim-colin — Sun, 04 Jul 2021 15:40:38 GMT

Hi,

I have tried operating my notebook with both a Cisco Aironet wireless LAN adapter and my fastethernet port active.

By doing a trace-route, I notice that my data is sometimes transmitted via my wireless LAN adapter, and sometimes via my NIC.

I initially assumed that data would take the faster route (100Mbps vs 11Mbps), but fater getting inconsistent results, I can come to no conclusion.

Does anyone know what is the choice is route taken based upon?

Thanks!

Re: Wireless Adapter VS FastEthernet NIC

Thu, 08 May 2003 13:48:00 GMT

I guess it will take route randomly. There might be some load balancing configuration done.

Re: Wireless Adapter VS FastEthernet NIC

derwin — Tue, 13 May 2003 03:29:08 GMT

This is done by windows it will load balance between the 2 links unless you manualy configure the link metric

If you click on the IP/TCP properties of the NIC card you want to take as the last choice then click on the advance tab in there you will see a field interface metric

Make this a number higher than 1 and then it will only use it if there is no lower metric interfaces available

You can confirm the changes by using the command netstat -r at the command prompt