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I was wondering if you had a wirless connection and a ethernet connection going at the sametime how dose the computer know which one to connect to or how dose if decide(IS IT FIRST COME FIRST SERVE).:confused:

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I was wondering if you had a wirless connection and a ethernet connection going at the sametime how dose the computer know which one to connect to or how dose if decide(IS IT FIRST COME FIRST SERVE).:confused:

It doesn't need to decide anything - You can be connected to both networks at the same time with no problems.

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In fact, you can have a dialup and one or more hi-speed connections, and the OS will use whatever is available. It is not just which has higher priority; some operations can have multiple threads running at the same time, such as downloading more than one file. If you have multiple connections, anything available will be used.

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Thanks for the info it was just a general question that I was thinking about the other day.

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