Wireless and Ethernet Simultaneously

[chrstrbrts]

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.

 

[beers]

You could probably see which one has the default route put into the table like such with the default route of 0.0.0.0 matching your specific interface IP:

C:\Users\beers>route print

IPv4 Route Table
===========================================================================
Active Routes:
Network Destination Netmask Gateway Interface Metric
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 10.1.1.1 10.1.1.218 10

It's really a waste of time to have both, though, unless you are doing some specific shaping of traffic or proxying out of different interfaces or similar.

 

[Homenet]

If both have default gateways configured then by default, your wired connection will be used as your main Internet connection (as the metric will be lower than the wireless connection.) But, as beers said, you can verify this with a route print command.