 Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rossell here for today's video. How to use Ethernet on Ubuntu Linux or perhaps a better description will be how to prefer to use Ethernet on Ubuntu. So if you like me prefer using wired internet or Ethernet over wireless, even though wireless internet is great and very convenient, typically Ethernet in terms of reliability still performs it and other concerns like latency. So there's a couple of things you can do if you want to kind of force your system. If you like me, any modern computer really is going to have a Wi-Fi capability in its networking card. So a couple of things you can do. So if you're in the, if you have a bunch of Linux and you have an applet like this, I'm using LXDE, then you can click into the network manager there and you can see at the bottom there is two buttons. One says enable networking and one says enable Wi-Fi. So what I do is untick enable Wi-Fi and that's going to force the network manager not to see any Wi-Fi network. So it disables Wi-Fi via a graphical approach and usually typically this persists through a reboot. So this is actually what I do and for any weird reason I need to connect to a Wi-Fi network now and again from this desktop computer. I can just enable it for a once-off use and then disable it again. Now the second thing you can do is if you go into edit connections, you're going to have a list of connections, Ethernet and wireless. Now if you go into one of the connections, you're going to click on the cog wheel and you're going to get your settings for that connection. Now on the first tab here it's called general. There's a box it says connect automatically with priority and if you hover over that for a second you'll get to a little explainer and they'll tell you here connection priority for automatic activation. Connections with higher numbers are preferred when selecting profiles for automatic activation. The default value is zero. So basically the standard behavior network manager if you have wired and Wi-Fi enabled at the same time is it's going to pluck out the best connection and once multiple connections are connected or set to automatic connection it'll say this is the strongest connection therefore the fastest connection this is what I want to use or this is what I think you want to use. However you can change that behavior by manually adjusting these automatic priority connection settings. All you need to do here is give the wired connection a higher value it can even be a higher value by one integer in other words by one than the wireless network and this is one way that you can keep the Wi-Fi active in network manager and just manually set the priority for your wired network to a higher value than your wireless network and that's another way that you can force your system to use wired internet aka ethernet for your connectivity needs. I hope this video has been useful if you'd like to get more videos from me about linux tech and other subjects please subscribe to this youtube channel