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On Ventura can you connect to both Wireless and Wired at the same time?

I want to use the wired connection on my Mac M1 but then airdrop does not work. Other discussions here seem to say you can have both turned on at the same time. I asked Apple Support and they say you cannot.


On my Mac I can use either wired or wireless separately and it works fine. If I am using wired and I switch on wireless, I can no longer reach the internet. I have the order of services set to ethernet first and wireless second.


Does this work for anyone else?

Mac mini, macOS 13.1

Posted on Dec 11, 2022 10:08 AM

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Posted on Dec 11, 2022 10:43 AM

Further digging found an answer. First you need to "make inactive" your ethernet connection. Then turn on wireless and forget any networks that is will automatically connect to. Wireless will then be on but not be connected to any wireless network. Now "make active" your ethernet connection. Voila, you are using the ethernet network but airdrop will still work.

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Dec 11, 2022 10:43 AM in response to ottawamacpro

Further digging found an answer. First you need to "make inactive" your ethernet connection. Then turn on wireless and forget any networks that is will automatically connect to. Wireless will then be on but not be connected to any wireless network. Now "make active" your ethernet connection. Voila, you are using the ethernet network but airdrop will still work.

Dec 11, 2022 11:09 AM in response to ottawamacpro

One other possible gotcha. If you have a "managed ethernet switch" and you want to use airdrop to pass files between multiple computers connected to the switch, there has to be a patch through the switch for the computes to talk to each other. In my case I had to create a VLAN in the configuration of the switch that included the 2 computers. One computer was connected to port 1 and one to port 8, so I configured a vlan that included those 2 ports. You can verify by pinging between the 2 computers.

Dec 11, 2022 10:14 AM in response to ottawamacpro

You can only use one gateway at a time. The one used by default is the one at the top of the network list. You can have both turned on to use network sharing. For example you can be connected using Ethernet to the Internet then you can connect your iPad or other device via WiFi to your computer to use the computer's Ethernet Internet connection.

On Ventura can you connect to both Wireless and Wired at the same time?

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