[PLUG] USB to ethernet adapters

[Tom]

USB2 with maximum transfer speed 480 Mb/s is plenty fast for fast
ethernet (100Mb/s) but not fast enough for 1 Gb/s ethernet - hence
those come mainly wit USB3 (or 3.0 or 3.1 v1 to confuse people) which
is 5Gb/s. Please note that USB3 gigabit ethernet adapter will work just
fine with recent linux when plugged in USB2 port.
I used may "no name" USB2 and USB3 to ethernet adapters over the years
and never had any issues with them on linux the "brands" were selected
at random by their price and form factor mainly: Cable Matters,
AmazonBasics, Anker, StarTech, SIIG and Linksys. The adapters are about
$10 for 100Mb/s and $15 for 1Gb/s on amazon.com - they are all
backwards compatible to 10/100Mb/s.
Hope it helps, Tomas
On Sun, 2017-03-19 at 08:59 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 03/19/2017 08:25 AM, David wrote:
> > On 03/19/2017 05:45 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > > The recent thread about the Lantronix XPort caught my attention.
> > > A quick search found a variety of USB to ethernet adapters.
> > > 
> > > I will be visiting a local Staples next week. Their website lists
> > > several.
> > > What should I look for?
> > > A better question might be "What should I avoid?"
> > > TIA
> > 
> > I can't speak for Staples specifically, but I recently bought a
> > laptop
> > without RJ-45 on-board and successfully used both an old Netgear
> > FA120
> > and an Apple USB-RJ45 without any problems.
> > 
> > The only thing to note (if not mentioned elsewhere already) is that
> > most
> > of the USB dongles only support 100MB speeds for data transfer. If
> > you
> > need speeds exceeding that, you may run into compatibility issues
> > with
> > Linux and likely pay a premium for that feature.
> > 
> > dafr
> 
> My only speed criteria is that it is as fast the 56k dialup link I
> used 
> up until ~1 year ago.
> 
> Also, the old machine that prompted this question only has USB 2.
> 
> Thank you
> 
> 
> 
> 
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