Using Wifi + Ethernet LAN at the same time

Grumbledook

Grumbledook

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My PC has always been connected via ethernet but these days it seems that most motherboards have built in Wifi.

I was planning on just keeping the Wifi disabled but then I saw Asrock have listed the ability to use both Wifi and Ethernet at the same time on their Taichi motherboard.

Is this something specific to this motherboard, or could it be set up on any motherboard. I noticed they aren't showing this for the cheaper Wifi enabled boards.

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ASRock X670E Taichi

Supports AMD Ryzen™ 9000, 8000 and 7000 Series Processors; 24+2+1 Phase Power Design, SPS for Vcore+GT; 4 x DDR5 DIMMs, Supports Dual Channel, up to 7800+ (OC); 2 PCIe 5.0 x16; Graphics Output Options: 2 USB4 Type-C, 1 HDMI; Realtek ALC4082 5.1 CH HD Audio Codec,, ESS SABRE9218 DAC, WIMA Audio...
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Killer Doubleshot Pro is what the feature is under.

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If it is ultimately going through the same internet connection not much of an advantage if any, if it can do proper load balancing, etc. with multiple different gateways then there is potentially some advantage to that, but only really because of Windows being **** and trying to make it hard for people to manually control things like updates :s

EDIT: The blurb does suggest the software behind it can use a different WiFi connection to your main internet connection to route less urgent traffic entirely away from your main connection which can have some advantages if you have more than 1 connection available - how robust that system is would be another matter though - you can have some issues if the same software's traffic gets split between 2 different gateways, etc. and some of it is then seen as unsolicited by the end point.
 
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My opinion - marketing bullmanure - for what it is being advertised for.
How many households have two independent internet connections to home???

Most use for it is to manage your "external" ISP connectivity over LAN, and connect WiFi to home lab to get network subnets separation. And even then, if you separate IoT devices on different subnet/VLAN, by fact that software for it will be on your computer, will it have path outside so you are not really securing it either..

I myself have that capability in MB and I am using it as additional network interface to connect to my home server where I have my resources/home lab set up - and it does NOT have default gateway IP set in config.
 
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