How to change network connection priority in Windows 10?

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  1. Posts : 149
    Windows 10 64 bit Pro
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    How to change network connection priority in Windows 10?


    All the advice on line is telling me about advanced options and hitting the alt key when clicking it to give priority to a specific connectivity option. I don't see advanced options. I'm running Windows 10 Pro.

    A walk through would be helpful with screen shots where this hidden Advanced options is supposed to be....

    See my screen grab below as reference.

    Thanks so much
    Richard
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  2. Posts : 8,057
    windows 10
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    How many connections do you have?
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  3. Posts : 149
    Windows 10 64 bit Pro
    Thread Starter
       #3

    I have three. I have a wired connection and have two WiFi ones... dual something or another... I choose the faster one but it doesn't take priority when booting.
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  4. Posts : 8,057
    windows 10
       #4

    So that is 3 seperate connection to the internet NOT 3 connections to the same router?
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  5. Posts : 149
    Windows 10 64 bit Pro
    Thread Starter
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    same router
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  6. Posts : 15,621
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    Assuming you have a modem supplied by your ISP with a router attached, one pc connected to router by ethernet cable, and two machines connecting to internet by wifi through the router.
    This equals one internet connection with four nodes on the local network.
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  7. Posts : 149
    Windows 10 64 bit Pro
    Thread Starter
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    All I want is a tutorial on how to expose this hidden area of the connections to move the fast Wifi up to the top of the list. From the screen shot I supplied in the first post there is no "Advanced" that I can see.

    Thank you.
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  8. Posts : 8,057
    windows 10
       #8

    Are you saying you cant find this How to change network connection priority in Windows 10

    What build are you on?
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  9. Posts : 9,765
    Mac OS Catalina
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    You have to change the metric in Advanced properties for the network adapter. The lower the number, the higher priority. How to change the priority order of network adapters on Windows 10 | Windows Central
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  10. Posts : 1,728
    Windows 10 Pro (+ Windows 10 Home VMs for testing)
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    It's much easier and faster using PowerShell (using Windows Powershell (Admin) from the power menu).

    Use Get-NetIPInterface first to get the list of network adapters up so you can see their Interface Metric details. The lowest number (5th column) gets highest priority.

    In the following example screenshot, my Ethernet adapter has an Interface Metric value of 5 so gets priority over my Wifi adapter (50):
    How to change network connection priority in Windows 10?-interface-metrics.png
    If I wanted to reverse the connection priority order then, in the elevated PowerShell window, I would use:

    Code:
    Set-NetIPInterface -InterfaceIndex "16" -InterfaceMetric "5"
    Set-NetIPInterface -InterfaceIndex "2" -InterfaceMetric "50"
    (The InterfaceIndex value is from the first column.)

    See the bottom part of the article linked in @bro67's post #9 above for full details.

    Hope this helps...
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