If you're not in a rush, I would suggest this item for £6.21, which has 1Gb connectivity and a 3-port USB hub as a bonus :smiley:

If you're not in a rush, I would suggest this item for £6.21, which has 1Gb connectivity and a 3-port USB hub as a bonus :smiley:

I have ordered one as I have bought UGreen items in the past and they have been good quality.

Perfect for going to my parents who don't have wifi! As most people are aware MacBook's don't have ethernet plugs! :disappointed:

This is the solution!!

Surely you'd want this to be usb3.0?

This perfect for working in the hotels where wifi is always poor ,Ive used a lot of ugreen products and all have been top quality and well built

Don't most people? They come standard on the BT homehub and other ISP routers/modems.

Last one like this I got didn't work on wii u. Any ideas if this does for sure?

You'll find most people don't, or they have no need for one. You only need a 1Gbps network card on a device/computer, if you plan on swapping lots of files between them at a fast speed. Most people don't do this.

Otherwise, people are happy with what ever their Internet speed is.

AFAIK, the only people who get faster than 80Mbps Internet in the UK are people on Virgin.

So USB2.0 version is more than faster enough at 100Mbps for the LAN side of things.

If someone does wants faster, all they've got to do is search Amazon for Ugreen RJ45 USB3.0, and they'll find a few for just under £9.


https://www.amazon.co.uk/Support-UtechSmart-Ethernet-Chromebook-Specific/dp/B00F41TWAO

Should do you fine.

I have 200Mbps virgin, will I only get half the speed with this?

Got one of these and it's broken since day one. Couldn't be bothered to mess about sending it back to Amazon (it was third party fulfilled by Amazon) for the sake of a few quid. If you move the cable ever so slightly it disconnects. Constantly making the connected disconnected noise unless you get it in the right position. Usually ugreen stuff is decent but in this case I was disappointed.

There are a few small ISPs doing over 100mbit, Hyperoptic for one (I use them) and I think BT are running trials in newer buildings, anywhere wired up for fibre or easily connectable (mate of mine in London had gigabit with them).

*edit* but this is still useful, far too often have I been trying to use game streaming services at home and had AC wifi give 25ms latencies while wired gave under 1ms. Not to mention what happens when you're uploading and downloading simultaneously on wifi, crawls to a halt.

You know what, I totally forgot that some major cities, some ISPs are offering up 1Gbps. I know York is another place that's starting to offer faster, with 1Gbps. (Lack of sleep) On the most part though, I still stand by what I say, that most people have 80Mbps and slower, if they haven't got Virgin. And things are a little bit different for business connections.

I've got Sky Fibre and have their old hub, not the new Q one. So, I've got it passing through a TP-Link Archer C9, my AC wifi works fine with that, uploading and downloading at the same time.

Might be a bug on my end, got a Linksys WRT1900ACS and in my workstation an Asus PCE-AC68. I'll get about 80MB/s down via wifi, or 80MB/s up, but when doing both simultaneously the throughput is below 20MB/s combined. Good thing gigabit ethernet's good for relatively long distances and cables are cheap.

Rubbish, I've purchased far better USB3 network devices for less on ebay, which have awesome performance and not only give me a decent connection for internet, they also give you a equally decent connection in and around the home or office transferring large amounts files, movies and other data between NAS's and servers.

Why pay more for something which does less, when you can pay less for something that will give you far better performance for more than one scenario. Buy this USB 2.0 one, then one day you when you need to transfer a large cluster of files you will find yourself sitting and waiting hours for the transfer to complete on this junk.

Link please.

"Why pay more for something which does less, when you can pay less for something that will give you far better performance" Ok thats your opinion i am happy with USB 2.0 and i transfer files from multiple NAS drives in my house.

Thank you for telling me, I'm talking rubbish.

Cheapest one with, UK selling USB3.0 on ebay with a normal USB plug at £6.88

Also, again, MOST people don't have NAS drives or servers. Not everyone is a computer nerd like you or even myself. BTW, I own more than one NAS and server. Most people don't even have a laptop with a USB3.0 port, that doesn't have its own network port.

For the average user, who finds themselves in a place that doesn't have wifi, this is more than enough to get on the net.

So again, thank you for telling me, I'm talking rubbish, when you obversely think everyone has the same sort of setup, as yourself!

I will still stand by what I said, and that most people will do fine with this and don't need to swap files between devices, but if they want USB3.0, they can of course search for that version instead!

If you're not in a rush, I would suggest this item for £6.21, which has 1Gb connectivity and a 3-port USB hub as a bonus :smiley:

If you're not in a rush, I would suggest this item for £6.21, which has 1Gb connectivity and a 3-port USB hub as a bonus :smiley:

I'm confused by this. Mine does.

Realtek USB GbE Family Controller / Realtek RTL8153 Cheaper here for non-prime members. A mere couple of quid more for prime but a better device.




You can get it cheaper as i bought my ones cheaper, but you have to not be lazy and ebay search the Chinese sellers (which i cant be bothered to do for you).

The purple bit on this one is a brushed aluminum. I've used mine on Windows 7, 8, 8.1,10, Ubuntu, Xpenology, Freenas, Android L and even with a Clonezilla boot drive among other things, to transfer an image from my tablet to a shared drive on my server. The only OS that needed an physical driver added to enable this USB device to work properly was Xpenology of all of those, but that's because its a hacked OS version of Synology's DSM operating system and is not meant to support it. :laughing:

Here You will also see a few more which are as cheap as the prime one.

Newer ones don't. My 2011 15" does but my 2015 15" doesn't.

Ah. So not Macbooks as a whole, then? :smiley:

Do people still use Macbooks?

Not at the moment, I'm on my iMac. But yes, people still use Macbooks.

The "fat" MBPs do. When they moved to retina they slimmed them down and ditched the ethernet port.

So Macbooks do have ethernet ports? :man:

Will this let me boot from bios to network?

Yeah, you won't get more than 10mb/s across a 'fast' ethernet or usb2 connection.
USB3 is only beneficial for gigabit Ethernet.


Most modems you buy are gigabit, most routers and switches too, and you'd be hard pushed to get a motherboard in a PC that isn't. The bog standard routers you get with TalkTalk and the like are still (remarkably) only 'fast' Ethernet. Talktalk only give you the gigabit modems if you get TV or fibre options, because then you need it. For a poxy 4.5mb (or upto 17mb) in london, a 'fast' ethernet is plenty. The thing is one crappy link in the chain (and the modem is usually central to a network) and your down to 10mb/s data transfer. I've got a gigabit switch immediately after my modem so just my internet is crappy and I still have a gigabit network. I bet most poeple won't realise slow file transfers if they ever make them are slow because they are moving them through a 'fast' Ethernet router they got with their basic broadband package.

Yes they do but still cannot figure out why, I went back to windows ages ago once the novelty wore off and after the frustration of not being able to buy "just any" accessory without worrying about compatibility.

Wrong, got a 115/50 connection on BT.

Where?

There are plenty of places with FTTP. Could be G.Fast too though.

pretty good price - I picked the same item from amazon a few days ago for a tenner ( but not in trauma or life in chaos ), because if the price drop. Dont know why people are quoting usb3 as you are not going to notice any difference.
Voted hot of course.

​The MacBook doesn't.
The MacBook Air doesn't.
Some older MacBook Pros do.

Thanks OP for the post

No where I'd want to live.....all cities and trial villages nowhere else.

I guess its a bit of an ambiguous question :smiley:

If you take it to mean the MBP's currently on the market, then the answer is no. (The last one was the 2012 13" MBP, which they carried on selling until end off 2014).

If you mean any MBP ever made, then I guess the answer is yes. In the same way Walkmans have cassette slots :smile:

To be fair my Surface Pro 3 has no Ethernet but there is one on its docking station.

​Right, but there are plenty of activities to use ethernet for other than file transfers and Internet use. Streaming being a fairly significant one. I've also been told that you get a good bit less than 100mbps from the ports but this is purely word of mouth and could be nonsense.

I accept you point that it'll do the average user with a standard broadband/fibre connection but I'd be opting to spend an extra few quid on 3.0 myself!

Incidentally my building is about to get hyperoptic 1gbps but I'm conscious this will make up less than 1% of users.

Can I get a cheaper USB 1.0 version?

if i use this in my laptop (with usb2) will it speed up file transfers as my current laptop only supports 10/100 ethernet?


nvm, just checked spec on Amazon ,
"Wired USB Ethernet Full 10/100 Mbps fast Ethernet performance over USB 2.0's 480 Mbps bus"

​To be fair a docking station is not a MacBook :wink:

At my Mother's house, where I keep my office, ADSL2+/fibre there

I'd buy this but Firefox takes issue with their https certificate and won't let me connect.

Hm, get one of the USB 3.0 Gigabit ones that have been mentioned. Still get at least double the throughput over USB 2.0.

great find, thanks. ideal for the pi zero.

No good for MacBook as there usb-c

Or get this one from UGreen, and possibly build quality looks better.
This one you've posted has been put thru rugged test by my daughter, and after a year has started fraying at the connection points...still works tho!

I have one of these for my wii u (bought 2 days ago for more) - great item, super convenient.

That's not Gigabit Ethernet though which is why the other product was linked as it is.