What is the correct Network Provider Order

Question

original title: Network Provider Order

what is the correct order for network providers.    

my choices are :

a. Dell Wireless WLAN Card Logon  Provide

b.  M/Soft Remote Desktop Session Host Server

c.   Web Client Network        and

d. M/Soft Windows Network....

Answer 1

Hi,

The order of Network providers can be changed according to the requirement. I would suggest you to see the following link on modification of network adaptors.

Modify the protocol bindings and network provider order

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732472(v=ws.10).aspx

Answer 2

Hi:

Please read questions properly next time before trying to answer. He is asking for the correct network provider order, NOT how to change the order. Neither your answer nor the link answer his/her question.

Answer 3

Hi:

Please read questions properly next time before trying to answer. He is asking for the correct network provider order, NOT how to change the order. Neither your answer nor the link answer his/her question.

Posted On 5-15-16.

It took me quite a while, but I found the answer to d.pow j.'s particular

question, that I haven't seen asked anywhere else online. I've been forced to reference this issue than once, so I wanted to post the answer here, so that NO ONE else will have to fish around for an answer to what should have been seen as a specific question and answered as such, quite some time ago.

I'm  currently using Windows 7 (x64 Ultimate SP1) and IE9, but as of this date, this can be applied to all OS versions of Windows, up to 10 (see Blogs.technet excerpt & the corresponding link from  on changes in Win. 10, below).

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Network Providers:

1. Web Client Network Microsoft

2. Windows Network

3. Microsoft Remote Desktop Session Host Server Network Provider

4. NFS Network

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"Networking Blog" Post Excerpt On Changes For Win. 10 (8-14-15)

"With Windows 10, you may not see an ‘Adapters and Bindings’ dialog box. Even if you get the ‘Adapters and Bindings’ dialog box, when you make adjustments to the binding order and save, and you re-open the Adapters and Bindings dialog box, you will notice that your changes do not persist.

Why this change?

There are no longer any components that utilize the binding order. The only known component that used the binding order was DNS ordering. By default, Windows uses the Route Metric + Interface Metric to determine which route has the highest priority by choosing the route with the lowest value.

What if you want to change the priority of a specific network card?

    Click Start

    Launch Windows PowerShell typing powershell

    When the 'Windows PowerShell / Desktop app' displays on the top of the list, press Enter

    Type the following command in the window and press Enter

    netstat –rn

You will now see “Interface List” in the results as shown below:

Output in text format:

Interface List

 21…14 8a 7f 0f ee 21 ……Microsoft Wi-Fi Direct Virtual Adapter

  8… 14 8a 7f 0f ee 20……Intel(R) Centrino(R) Advanced-N 6205

 23…f4 b7 e2 cc 61 30 ……Bluetooth PAN HelpText

  1………………………Software Loopback Interface 1

 30…00 00 00 00 00 00 00 e0 Microsoft ISATAP Adapter

  5…00 00 00 00 00 00 00 e0 Microsoft Teredo Tunneling Adapter #2

 49…00 00 00 00 00 00 00 e0 Microsoft IP-HTTPS Platform Adapter

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If you notice the above text, the highlighted numbers against the network card interfaces, according to Windows, these numbers represent the priority of that network aka interface metrics.

Always remember, the lower the number the higher is the priority.

Warning: You may not want to change the default priority order unless you see some real problem with how Windows is prioritizing the network interface cards.

If you are using multiple NICs and you need to increase the priority a specific NIC has over others, use Set-NetIPInterface -InterfaceMetric to define the weight for the interface.

For Example: Set-NetIPInterface –InterfaceIndex “xx”–InterfaceMetric “xxx”. "

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/networking/2015/08/14/adjusting-the-network-protocol-bindings-in-windows-10/