Always use one slow connection in preference of a "faster" one

Posted by billc.cn on Super User See other posts from Super User or by billc.cn
Published on 2012-11-03T22:53:41Z Indexed on 2012/11/03 23:05 UTC
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In Windows, there's this automatic metric thing where the metric is selected according to the declared speed of the link. I now have a gigabit LAN routed to a 2MB DSL service and a HSDPA mobile broadband connection. The former is always chosen for Internet packets even though the latter is actually faster.

I tried setting the mobile broadband's interface metric to 1 and raising its priority in the advanced settings of the adapter settings, but this does not seem to affect the metric of the default route. The default route to the Ethernet interface always have a lower metric than the mobile broadband interface.

Am I missing something here?

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