At work we have two broadband connections, our primary and failover which are connected to invidiual cisco pix firewalls.

Both connections are pretty lame to be honest (as we’re too far from an exchange to recieve high connection speeds) and the costs for T1 or equivalent are are way to pricey to justify.

Anyway, during peak times our primary connection really starts to grind to a halt and as the failover isnt doing anything I could simply connect to the failover and off I go.
This is easily done by updating the the default gateway ip to the failover pix within the networking section of the control panel in windows.  But I wanted to find a much easier and efficent way of doing this (for other members of staff within our department).

A couple of google queries later I discovered the Default Gateway Selector.  It’s no frills and does exactly what it says.
Just launch the utility, update the ip to the DG, apply and your done!

Dont be put off by it’s version (0.1 beta).  I’ve found no problems with it so far.  It comes in both 32 and 64 bit flavours and works in Vista, which means it should work in Windows 7 (I tested it under Windows XP Pro).

It’s free and you can download it from http://www.kalytta.com/tools.php – enjoy.