USB Ethernet Adapters

Wed May 16 09:55:58 UTC 2018

To me then the Anker AK-A7611011 sounds perfect. It has indicator lights,
good build quality and uses said Realtek chip.

On Wed, 16 May 2018, 01:51 Colton Conor, <colton.conor at gmail.com> wrote:

> Mario,
>
> Thanks for the recommendation. I am leaning towards the devices with
> a Realtek RTL8153 chipset over the devices with the Axis AX88179. I have
> more faith in Realtek than AXIS as I have had serveral laptops in the past
> with Realtek NIC's, but never a single device with AXIS. Plus Realtek seems
> to be more standards based whereas AXIS only supports 4k Jumbo frames?
>
> On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 9:35 PM, Mario Eirea <meirea at charterschoolit.com>
> wrote:
>
> > My recommendation was based on the Realtek RTL8153 chipset. It's the only
> > USB chip I had found at the time that did VLANs and full gigabit, in
> > Windows. I have had this for a while now, I would hope there are more
> > things on the market.
> >
> >
> > -ME
> > ------------------------------
> > *From:* NANOG <nanog-bounces at nanog.org> on behalf of Colton Conor <
> > colton.conor at gmail.com>
> > *Sent:* Monday, May 14, 2018 9:20 PM
> > *To:* NANOG
> > *Subject:* Re: USB Ethernet Adapters
> >
> > Thanks for the responses so far. I am surprised to see the wide array of
> > responses. A couple of more things:
> >
> > 1. I like the ones that have lights on the Ethernet port so you can see
> if
> > the device is up/down. I find that critical as we go to a lot of sites
> > where we don't know if the cable is good/bad, so a indication on the
> lights
> > is critical.
> > 2. Techs are constantly doing speedtest.net tests on 1Gbps Ethernet
> > connections, so ideally an adapter that can constantly push the 1Gbps
> > speeds is ideally.
> >
> > Seems that most of these adapters use a common chipset. Anyone done
> > research on which chipset is the best, and why?
> >
> > On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 12:45 PM, Colton Conor <colton.conor at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Our new laptops like most do not have an Ethernet adapter build in as
> > they
> > > are too slim. What USB to Ethernet adapter do you recommend and why?
> > > Ideally it would be compatible with Windows 10, and have the ability to
> > set
> > > speed, duplex and VLAN IDs if possible.
> > >
> >
>