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How Do You Configure Application To Use Different Internet Connection.?

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How Do You Configure Application To Use Different Internet Connection.?

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This is surprisingly hard. You can use one or the other easily enough, but selecting the interface based on the domain name is very hard. The problem is that the routing is done based on the numerical address, not the text domain name. If you can generate a list of numerical address, then you can set your routing tables to use your wifi connection for just those addresses. However, major websites often use a number of different hosts for all their different content. For example, yahoo’s main page uses 3 others servers in addition to yahoo.com. Collecting all the addresses for all the blocked sites is a lot of work. The easiest solution is to set your wifi with a lower metric than your LAN. This will route all your internet traffic to your wifi connection. Goto control panel and the networking section. Open the properties for your wireless interface and look for Internet Protocol version 4. Double click that and hit the advanced button. Uncheck ‘Automatic medtric’ and enter your a low n

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