USB Ethernet Adapters

Tue May 15 02:35:00 UTC 2018

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

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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.
>