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Say_What
Aspirant
Mar 24, 2020

Netgear RAX40-100NAS

Good day, I have my a Netgear RAX40-100NAS router set up. Wifi is blazing fast, but when I use one of the ports in the back and directly connect to my computer with an ethernet cable my PC doesn't recognize that I connected directly to the router with an ethernet cable. I direct connect when I want to download a large file for faster loading. It appears my download is still being downloaded via wifi. Is there something I am missing or need to do?

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  • antinode's avatar
    antinode
    Guru
    Mar 24, 2020

    > [...] I direct connect when I want to download a large file for faster
    > loading. It appears my download is still being downloaded via wifi.
    > [...]

     

       When you connected the Ethernet cable, did you inform the operating
    system on your (unspecified) "my PC" that it should use that network
    interface, and stop using the wireless network interface?

     

       Did you think that you had a Macintosh?

    • labatt's avatar
      labatt
      Mentor
      Mar 24, 2020
      antinode wrote:

         Did you think that you had a Macintosh?

      In my experience, both windows PC and MAC are smart enough to know which of two connections is the faster and use it, Granted the best way is to disable/turn off wireless connection if using an Ethernet connection.