Mac to Mac networking: specifying preferred connection type

Hi
Finally I am a proud owner of a MacBook Pro and Mac desktop that both have wifi and thunderbolt. And they both run Mavericks. I'd like to routinely connect them together for file transfer and backup using the Thunderbolt bridge. But if I leave the wifi of both machines on, I am not sure whether or not they are connected through wifi or thunderbolt. Obviously, I'd like to use Thunderbolt because of its speed. The only way it seems that I can ensure that Thunderbolt is used is to switch off wifi on one of the two machines. But I don't want to do this. Is there a setting somewhere in the OS that allows me to specify Thunderbolt as the preferred connection type whenever these two machines are connected to each other?

I think I found the solution to this. And it lies in changing the service order in the network preferences pane of System Preferences. This option can be found in the "Network" setting, in the "gear" button of the network services window. Changing the service order to ensure that wired connections are higher up on the list than wireless ensures that that will be the connection to be used.

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