[ubuntu-uk] Network Enlightenment

[Simon Greenwood]

I found due to a similar query recently that wired connections take
precedent over wifi connections in Network Manager so all traffic should
have been going across the wired connection.

s/

On 17 November 2015 at 14:24, Nigel Verity <nigelverity at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I have arrived at a situation where I have 2 routers in my home network.
>
> Router A provides the connection back to my iSP while router B serves
> purely as a wireless access point. B is connected to A.
>
> I connect wired devices to router A through powerline adaptors and
> wireless devices talk to router B.
>
> There is no real need for the wired and wireless devices to talk to each
> other, so the fact that they don't have sight of each other is not a
> problem.
>
> I recently discovered that my Dell laptop routinely had both wired and a
> wireless interfaces active. This means it was accessing both routers
> simultaneously.
>
> The wireless connection on the Dell is now switched off, but I can't say
> I've noticed any change to internet performance for better or worse. The
> route duplication seems to have been managed perfectly well without any
> explicit configuration on my part.
>
> For my own enlightenment can anybody with more networking knowledge than
> me (which is practically everyone) suggest how my internet traffic is
> likely to have been routed across these two connections? I would have
> expected contention at the very least.
>
> I doubt that it's relevant in this instance but the Dell runs Ubuntu Mate
> 15.04
>
> Thanks
>
> Nige
>
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