Ethernet + Wifi

[leclod]

My ethernet connection to the mobile router is faulty somehow. Every now and then (often), the network shuts down and I have to wait 10-20s till it's up again.

I'd prefer having the cable over wifi if it worked.

So today I got tired of it and activated Wifi without deactivating Ethernet.

Do you guys know how my computer handles it ? does it use ethernet, wifi or both ?

Does ethernet still break down but now wifi takes other ?

It's weird, in the taskbar sometimes there's the ethernet symbol and sometimes wifi symbol

[Lurick]

Windows, by default, will use Ethernet and fall back to WiFi but you may still notice a blip since it does not stay connected to WiFi but will have to authenticate when failing over. There is a registry setting to have both active at the same time and while Windows will use Ethernet by default it won't cause a loss of traffic when it fails over with that setting enabled.

 

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1. Open Registry Editor.

2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WcmSvc\Local.

3. Create/change the fMinimizeConnections registry DWORD to 0.

4. Close Registry Editor and reboot.

 

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/wifi-disconnects-when-ethernet-is-plugged-in/00329022-6cad-4ea4-8a0a-ab1e38812e32

[leclod]

7 minutes ago, Lurick said:

Windows, by default, will use Ethernet and fall back to WiFi but you may still notice a blip since it does not stay connected to WiFi but will have to authenticate when failing over. There is a registry setting to have both active at the same time and while Windows will use Ethernet by default it won't cause a loss of traffic when it fails over with that setting enabled.

But my wifi seems to stay ON too even without the hack

[Lurick]

7 minutes ago, leclod said:

But my wifi seems to stay ON too even without the hack

 

Ah, might be something that changed in Windows 11 then or in later versions of 10. For a while you had to do that yourself.