10/11/2019 Use On Mac For Internet On Another
Right now I am using mine in training for the Mavericks certification exams. Then, I'll use it for the Yosemite exams, once I'm done with them, I'll probably set it up as a server as well as a repository for my music. Last October, I picked up a 2012 i5 Mini, maxed out the ram, added a 2gb hard drive and now I'm just learning it.
Up to May of last year I never owned a Mac of any sort. Now, I have a 13 inch MacBook Pro, a Mac Mini, and sometime later this year, I'll be adding a 27 inch iMac Retina into the fold. I will still be a Windows user, i'm just expanding my horizons.
To connect to the Internet over a wired connection, connect an Ethernet cable between your router or modem and the Ethernet port on your Mac. Some Macs require an Ethernet adapter like the Belkin USB-C to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter, or the Apple Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter.
And I just added a Toshiba laptop into the fold that I will be loading Ubuntu onto so I can learn about Security Onion and other cyber threat defense applications. Got my geek on pretty strong right now. To be honest my 2012 2.3 quad 16GB mini is just sitting around doing nothing. It was running Windows 8.1 and was a pretty good Windows machine. I wanted to use more Windows features and to have upgraded hardware so I bought a Windows machine and used the mini's M500 SSD as the Windows C drive. I am still trying to decide if I should get another SSD and use the mini for something or just sell the thing. While I am really cranked over my Z230 and all its capabilities I still am a mini fan.
I will probably keep it around in case my Mac Pro dies or I decide to get serious about HTPC. It's my home media hub and HTPC with 12TB of thunderbolt storage. Through direct connect to my 60' plasma in the TV room, I watch iTunes library and rentals, Hulu, Netflix.
Through the network it serves iTunes content to 4 Apple TVs, a couple Airport Express nodes, several iOS and Mac clients, runs an Internet streaming server so I can access my iTunes library when I'm away from home. It runs a virtual mouse/keyboard server for my iPad, dynamic DNS updates to keep my home URL updated should my ISP IP change, same with my OpenDNS service. And using OS X Server it is the Time Machine host for the home computers, provides software update caching and file sharing services.I'm pretty fond of the little machine. It's my home media hub and HTPC with 12TB of thunderbolt storage. Through direct connect to my 60' plasma in the TV room, I watch iTunes library and rentals, Hulu, Netflix. Through the network it serves iTunes content to 4 Apple TVs, a couple Airport Express nodes, several iOS and Mac clients, runs an Internet streaming server so I can access my iTunes library when I'm away from home.
It runs a virtual mouse/keyboard server for my iPad, dynamic DNS updates to keep my home URL updated should my ISP IP change, same with my OpenDNS service. And using OS X Server it is the Time Machine host for the home computers, provides software update caching and file sharing services.I'm pretty fond of the little machine. To be honest my 2012 2.3 quad 16GB mini is just sitting around doing nothing. It was running Windows 8.1 and was a pretty good Windows machine. I wanted to use more Windows features and to have upgraded hardware so I bought a Windows machine and used the mini's M500 SSD as the Windows C drive.
I am still trying to decide if I should get another SSD and use the mini for something or just sell the thing. While I am really cranked over my Z230 and all its capabilities I still am a mini fan. I will probably keep it around in case my Mac Pro dies or I decide to get serious about HTPC.
Is there a way to make my Mac always choose Wifi for Internet browsing, and Ethernet for local network browsing and file-sharing? My Wifi Internet download speeds are approaching 100Mbps, but when I'm connected via Ethernet, I only get 15Mpbs. However, when transferring files via Wifi it is the complete opposite. A 1GB file might take a few minutes, whereas over Ethernet, it's done in a fraction of that time. I know I can't make my Ethernet connect to my Internet faster because of the hardware limitations of my house. But I guess I could try and work out why my Wifi file transfer is so slow. But for sake of Stack Exchange, my only questions is as stated in the first sentence.
There are tools like that can change such settings based on location, but you will need to actually change your location, or have some other automated way to trigger this change. While there are some sophisticated servers and network hardware that can access multiple TCP/IP connections, and route different classes of network traffic to different ports, your Mac isn't one of them.
So, I really don't think there is anything in the software you can configure to have your Mac send some traffic over Ethernet and others over Wifi: its all or nothing. I too prefer to use Ethernet for file transfers, whereas Wifi is fine for nearly all other uses. The easiest way to achieve what you want is to simply plug in the Ethernet cable when you want Ethernet, unplug when you do not. For this to work properly, you simply need to inform your Mac to prefer Ethernet over Wifi.
You do this by System Preferences Network. Click the 'gear' icon at the bottom of the Network list, then choose 'Set Service Order'.
You want to drag the Ethernet service to the TOP of the list, with Wifi below it. This way, the Mac will connect to Ethernet when it is available, even over an active Wifi connection.
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I have a similar issue; it happens from time to another that we lose the internet connection in my office. We are still connected to the server by ethernet so what I do is to share my mobile data connection. I need the connection to the server for file access so I only need to set the wifi to be on top of the list, no need to unplug the ethernet cable. This way i get both the external connection to the internet and the local ethernet. Work can continue as nothing has happened, but of course this can result in a juicy bill from your cell provider if you forget to break the connection to your cell when internet is back on the server/ethernet.
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