Lastly, on the IP Settings dialog, go ahead and uncheck the Automatic metric box and then type in a value yourself.įor the wired connection, you want a lower value and it’s best to start with 10. Then click on the Advanced button at the bottom right: Now click on Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4) and click on Properties.

In order to change the values, you need to go to Network Connections again, but this time right-click on the network you want to change the metric value for and choose Properties. You can read a little bit about how metric values work when accessing network resources here: The second method is also recommended to ensure Windows 7 is forcefully using the LAN connection. This will move the wired connection higher up in the order so that Windows 7 will access the network using Ethernet first, then Wireless. You want to move Local Area Connection to the top using the green arrows. In my case, you don’t see the wireless network because this is running in a virtual machine, however, normally you would see Local Area Connection and Wireless Network Connection. Now you will see the list of network connections listed in the connections box.

Ethernet icon instead of wireless