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If your Mac has working Wifi and Ethernet, which does it prioritize?

4 Answers
Jon Fabritius
Jon Fabritius, provider of UX books and free coffee to Aalto University students..
The order of preference can be found at the bottom of the 'Network' System Preference pane, inside the action menu with a gear symbol on it. The menu item is called 'Set Service Order'.
It uses both network interfaces simultaneously (if you are connected to two different LANs, you can use network resources from both), but default route for internet is an active interface with higher position in Service Order menu from the Network pane.
By default, it will be ethernet (but you can change that like Jon said).
György Fekete
György Fekete, CTO @PrimalSkill.com
Which is available and to which gets a faster communication connection. This is usually the ethernet.

Cable is always faster than wifi.