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Wireless and Ethernet Simultaneously

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chrstrbrts

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Hi,

I have a basic question. If I have my laptop connected to a network (specifically the internet) both through ethernet cable and wireless through the same router, which connection is my computer using? Can I change the priority?

Thanks.
 
It's using whichever connection is showing activity in the task manager.

Bottom line is there is no reason to do it. Connecting by both used to make computers and networks stop functioning. Nowadays they function. If you have a cable connected, hit the button on the laptop to disable wireless. When the cable is out, re-enable wireless.
 
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Starting with 8, Windows will automatically disassociate from WiFi if it detects that you're on wired (you can disable this behavior via Group Policy). It saves a wee bit of energy.
 
Have more than one nic on a pc is called a multihomed device.
Microsoft used to support this under windows xp. I think it was called Multi link protocol more famous to be used under PPP connections. People were able to grab data much faster.

Would be nice to see this technology revived.
 
You can with wired. SMB3 in Windows 8/8.1/server 2013 has a protocol called SMB Multichannel. It'll effectively bond NICs together. They have to be the same speed (can't do wired and wireless together), but in effect you can stick together as many NICs as you want.

I have my server and desktop running 2Gbps between the two of them with a couple of Intel Gigabit CT NICs in each machine (~235MiB/sec file transfers).
 
code65536 said:
Starting with 8, Windows will automatically disassociate from WiFi if it detects that you're on wired (you can disable this behavior via Group Policy). It saves a wee bit of energy.
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That's good to hear. With Windows 7, it will switch between the two arbitrarily, which is frustrating.

But that said, you can use the route command to do some static IP/interface configuration, which might be nice if you wanted to use a specific interfaces for specific traffic. (force VPN or iSCSI to use a different network segment, whatever.)

If you have a reason to do that, you probably know how. *shrug*
 
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