Quote Originally Posted by Moorea View Post
All laptops come with 2+ nics : wireless and ethernet - if you want the best network performance and have 2 such laptops you will setup the ethernet to try to pay the wireless latency "price" only once - which is again my real (not hyphotetical either) case - if you have 1 wired computer, 2 laptops and want to box you may want to setup the way I had: the 2 laptops linked to each other with ethernet; and the rest in a home network; ie 2 interfaces used with 1 of the laptops in the middle
Ok, you've got a point.

But the intent is for the end user to use one or the other, not both at the same time (even though its possible)

And for the record, I said desktop PCs - not laptops.