A few months ago I started this thread about the relative advantages and disadvantages of wired vs. wireless connections between my laptop and router.
I thought I had my head wrapped around the issue, but then yesterday my son got me all confused again.
To summarize, my laptop has both a hard-wired and a wireless network adapter. I usually keep the wireless switched off and use the cat-5 cable to connect with the router. My son says I should keep both on because that increases my bandwidth. He swears that when he is downloading a large file, as soon as he switches on the wireless his speed increases dramatically because the router is now devoting twice as much time to servicing the laptop.
I call BS on this, saying that the router does no such thing because it looks at the two ports as separate devices, and that the browser on the laptop is only using one of the ports.
So, who’s correct here?