Author Topic: How to tell if a connection has switched to lan?  (Read 5160 times)

Forseto

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How to tell if a connection has switched to lan?
« on: March 02, 2012, 01:41:00 AM »
Hi, sorry if this has already been asked but I couldn't find it with a search, but I am using teamviewer, very often these days since i have a desktop, laptop and smartphone, sometimes from outside my home network, and sometimes from within the same home network.

Anyways, both my desktop and laptop have Teamviewer installed and are connected to my teamviewer account for unattended access, so i can just be logged into teamviewer and click on the one I want to access in the list using the teamviewer server to do the handshake etc

However, on the teamviewer pdfs, it states that after this, it will automatically switch to the best direct connection, does that mean if say, i am connecting my laptop to the desktop on the same wifi, is it after the initial connection, switching over to a direct lan connection? and if so, how can I tell whether the connection has switched to lan or if its still going to the internet and back? And also, if it is, does this apply to file transfer? If i use teamviewer to do a quick and easy file transfer, is it going over the lan, or is it going back and forth to the teamviewer server and consuming monthly bandwidth?