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Hey Guys, hoping someone can give me some direction for an issue i'm having.

Currently I have a small home server running windows server 2012 and Sabnzbd. This server has multiple NICs as well as a USB connection to a MiFI for a direct connection to the web bypassing my local intranet.

(We live in a fairly remote area, but I have a business MiFi with unlimited and unrestricted data that I can get about 25MB/s on)

Essentially the issue i'm having is that my sabnzbd instance will revert to using my local ethernet connection to get out to the internet, the speeds on this line are much slower and more prone to congestion as I have many other devices on this network, and its going out essentially a similar (but different) cellular connection.

I've tried manually setting the interface metric in windows, as well as assigning the MiFi interface a higher priority, but it seems to always fall back to the ethernet interface after a few minutes of seeming to work fine in sabnzbd.

Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance!

That’s a fairly complex network setup, only thing I can think of is to prioritise the ports your newsgroup service is using to grab. Rather then the interface prioritisation.

Interesting, I guess I could block those ports on the wired network, but then I would loose a backup connection if the MiFi failed. What did you mean by prioritize when you say "prioritize the ports"?

Thanks for the reply!

Port numbers, sab would grab on a specific ip:port number, not the web interface port. What are the two nics for? If you can give me a better idea of your setup I may be able to help.

@tricamtech:

Maybe ForceBindIP can solve it for you?

Example usage: See https://r1ch.net/projects/forcebindip

Interesting. Thanks for the ideas guys! I’ll check out forcebind!