Haunted by ancient history

Posted Jan 20, 2015 13:09 UTC (Tue) by nye (subscriber, #51576)
In reply to: Haunted by ancient history by tialaramex
Parent article: Haunted by ancient history

>Also, the Right Thing™ (and I'm a little surprised the Windows laptop doesn't do this of its own accord unless you've missed part of the story) is that you'd leave the WiFi up in your scenario, and the IP stack will choose the Cat5 (or whatever) for all new connections while continuing to handle old connections seamlessly on the WiFi

Modern versions of Windows definitely do this; I'm not sure whether older versions do, but I'd expect so since this is a simple case of setting the metric to prefer wired over wireless connections, which I find it hard to believe has ever not been the default.

There are probably other factors at work here.