Using multiple gateways
If you have multiple interfaces and you configure a default gateway for each interface, TCP/IP by default automatically calculates an interface metric that is based on the speed of the interface. The interface metric becomes the metric of the default route in the routing table for the configured default gateway. The interface with the highest speed has the lowest metric for its default route. The result is that whenever multiple default gateways are configured on multiple interfaces, the fastest interface will be used to forward traffic to its default gateway.
If multiple interfaces of the same speed have the same lowest interface metric, then, based upon the binding order, the default gateway of the first network adapter is used. The default gateway for the second network adapter is used when the first is unavailable.
In previous versions of TCP/IP, multiple default gateways all had a default route metric set to 1, and the default gateway used depended on the order of the interfaces. This sometimes caused difficulty in determining which default gateway the TCP/IP protocol was using.
The automatic determination of the interface metric is enabled by default through the Automatic metric check box on the IP Settings tab on the advanced properties of the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) protocol.
You can disable the automatic determination of the interface metric and type a new value for the interface metric.