I've been training my users to turn the wireless off when not in use/needed. Most laptops either have a hardware switch or a keyboard combo to turn off the radio. This article details why the problem exists... http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/24163/resolving-connection-problems-in-mixed-wired-and-wireless-networks.html but doesn't discuss a way to distribute the change to other computers in your environment without visiting each one. I'm not sure if netsh would have enough capabilities to handle this. I've found user training above to be fairly effective, although they tend to grumble about it sometimes...
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Roger Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > Laptop users sometimes have network issues when their machines are brought > from home and docked in the office. If the wireless connection is still on, > it'll take priority and try to use the configuration from the most recent > connection. (This happened to me this morning; took a few minutes to > troubleshoot.) > Ideally, I'd like the wired NIC to take precedence over the wireless > connection. I know I can assign metrics to the NICs to resolve this, but > is there a method to do so via GPO so I don't have to manually configure > each portable machine? > > > Roger Wright > ___ > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
