USB Ethernet Adapters

Wed May 16 00:49:44 UTC 2018

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.
> >
>