Description of the Wireless LAN Route Table Metric Behavior

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This article was previously published under Q315088

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SUMMARY

After you install a wireless network adapter in a computer that already has a physical local area network (LAN) connection, the default gateway route for the wireless LAN (if the system is configured to have one) may have a higher metric than the physical LAN default gateway. For example, the physical LAN default gateway metric may be 20, but the wireless LAN default gateway may be 30.

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Windows assigns metrics based on the connection speed. To ensure that a 100-MB connection is used before an 11-MB connection, the wireless LAN may be set with a higher metric.

For additional information about how to change this behavior, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

258487 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/258487/EN-US/ ) Configuring Multiple Adapters on the Same Physical Network