Windows 7 - why the priority of network adapter is ignored when you are connected to the area on a lower priority NIC?

I have two network cards installed on my laptop.  I wanted to test and see how Windows 7 Ultimate managed the priority of the network adapters so I connected to a small Internet (NIC B) router, and the other on my domain (NIC A).
First of all, it was a pain to find network adapter priority.  After some research and fun Google I found this.  Unfortunately, the search bar has not helped.
Control Panel-> network and Internet-> view network status and tasks-> to modify the adapter-> Hold down 'alt' to bring up the menu "File"-> select 'Advanced'-> select 'Advanced settings' in the menu drop-down-> adjust your priorities of the adapter in the 'Advanced settings' window, under the tab "maps and links.

With "B NIC", defined as the highest priority, I tried to browse the internet.  It was impossible to travel.  Then I disabled 'NIC A' (the NIC domain) and I can browse the internet.  Windows XP he handled this much better.

Select 'NIC A', and then check 'NIC B' is the highest priority.  Then try tracert on www.google.com.  It refreshes my domain as the first hop router.  It seems to be completely ignoring 'NIC B', unless I have disable 'NIC A' completely.

In case someone of another Vienna here, looking for the answer to this, as I did, I thought that putting the real solution to this question.  Many web pages say to change the priority of going on network connections and change the order there to what you like.  You don't have to bother with this setting.

It does not work. He has apparently no effect on the use of connections.

What Windows actually uses is the metric value for network connections.  The lowest metric value is tried first.  In my case, I have a connection broadband shabby home, but I can attach wireless on my phone for occasional good bandwidth.  So, I want to always use the connected wireless and ignore the wired connection, but still the chance to printers and other things on my network cable at the same time.  I want to keep both on and not to disable the wired when I use my phone.

To resolve this problem for real, go to and right click your Wi-wired adapters and one at a time to change the properties.  Select IPv4, click and then .  For each of them, disable the "Automatic metric" checkbox and set the metric value manually.  I put the wireless cable and 1-2, which gave me the behavior I wanted.

The Automatic metric is defined by Windows based on the speed of connection and a wired connection is generally faster than a wireless one.

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