So I have been trying to do this for over 2 days now and I am on the verge of giving up. Basically, I need 2 connections, the Ethernet and Wifi to be enabled at the same time. However, each time I do this, Wifi seems to take advantage over ethernet and I absolutely despise it since my ethernet is 5x faster than wifi.
I tried setting the interface metric of both ethernet and Wifi but no avail. I have no other methods as every. single. forum. post says to set the interface metric. Here is proof of my metrics:
As you can see, in both Ipv4 and Ipv6, the Ethernet Interface has a lower metric than the wifi interface, which is what the articles say to do, yet, I go over to the settings and see this:
If ethernet was being used, this should show up:
So my conclusion is that Windows is not listening at all to the Interface metrics or to anything I do for that matter, because even after the metrics have been switched to a suitable value, windows still prefers wireless over ethernet. All drivers are updated and no problems were detected with the adapters. It seems weird since I followed this post and yet over 600 people said their problem was fixed: .
101 Answer
The solution here was to disable IPv6. For a home network IPv4 is more than enough internally, and IPv6 may cause unforeseen behavior because by default Windows favors IPv6 addresses over IPv4 addresses.
This is done inSettings > Network & Internet > Status > Change adapter options. Right-click the network adapter, select Properties, Networking tab and uncheck "lnternet Protocol Version 6 (TCP/ IPv6)", then click OK.
Reference:Guidance for configuring IPv6 in Windows for advanced users.
