On 17 November 2015 at 14:24, Nigel Verity <nigelver...@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.
There won't be any contention issues as the wired and wifi interfaces on the PC will have different ip addresses. The PC could route route through either interface and all would be well. I suspect that Simon is right in that it will prefer the wired i/f when available, but I don't know. Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
