Friday, June 10, 2011

Setting Network Device Priorities on Windows 7

I have a laptop at work and dock it when I'm at my desk. So I want to use my wired connection at my desk and wireless otherwise. However when I docked my machine it still used the wireless even though the wired connection was faster. I found these simple few steps to fix this here:

  1. Go to the "Network And Sharing Center" window click "Change Adapter Settings"
  2. On the "Network Connections" window, press the ALT key on your keyboard to being up the menu bar
  3. Click the "Advanced" menu and then "Advanced Settings"
  4. In the "Advanced Settings" window you will see the "Adapters and Bindings" tab and under "Connections" you will see the order they are in, you can use the arrows to the side to move the connection priority up and down.