USB to Ethernet Adapter, CableCreation USB 3.0 to 10/100/1000 Gigabit Wired LAN Network Adapter Compatible with Nintendo Switch, Windows, MacBook, macOS, Mac Pro Mini, Laptop, PC and More

Very well made & quite useful.

These work very well with laptops and computers. Comes in handy with good speeds especially when your NIC goes bad, or if your Laptop has an old, slower, “wireless standard,” or if you have poor a WIFI signal.

I just upgraded to Cox Gigablast 1 GB Internet from 100Mbps on a deal for $64.99 for 24 months!Couldn't pass that up! Since it was essentially getting 10x the speed for the same price. Though, like most people you don't get what you pay for.My 100 Mbps service usually only yielded an average of 72Mbps (When they advertise or sell you the service it is usually worded "up to 100Mbps", "up to 1 GBps", etc.I just upgraded to a new laptop with 1GBe Ethernet card, Netgear's "World's Fastest" Modem "CM1000" and World Fastest Router "R700 Nighthawk". "Home Improvement's Tim Allen would be proud! ahh ahh ahhh!I bought into the whole Amazon Alexa Universe with Echo Dot in every room, 2x Roku Smart TVs a bunch of other 5Ghz tech like security cameras, etc.Everything now at the speed of light...except for two of my older laptops and tablets that had the older 10/100 Ethernet/WiFi cards. Which were now getting only 45-72Mbps... Poor Poor Laptops.... which had fast processors, 32 GB of RAM, all 1-2TB SSD drives that make any computer 100% faster or more when replacing the old mechanical HDD, but still no way to fully benefit from the full increased speed of my 1GB connection!?For weeks I looked into replacing the ethernet cards/chips on these devices but since most are hardwired into the devices, unlike desktops where you remove the case cover, pull out the old card and pop in a new one, most laptops don't offer this plug and play capability, making it an expensive proposition that may cause more complications if the new ethernet/wifi card is not fully compatible with the device's motherboard.I was looking at $hundreds more to do this until a techie buddy of mine suggested CableCreation's USB 3.0 adapter, stating that just like the ethernet card, it still requires throughput on the motherboard and he used them on computers where the RJ45 plug port was broke as an inexpensive and much much faster solution alternative to the more expensive removing and replacement of the old ethernet/wifi card.I logged onto my most recent's BFF Jeff Bezos website Amazon.com where if I want something he and his teams find it, ship and have it in my hot little hands in as little as a few hours.The order said 2 days, I said Son of a ... well you know! But Psych!...it showed up the next day...a day earlier!Proof that Jeff & Company loves us... or at least me! ;) :PI ripped open the little bubble wrap package plugged it into one of my older laptops all running Windows 10, plugged the ethernet Cat6 cable into the CableCreation ethernet adapter and the CableCreation ethernet adapter into one of the 3.0 USB slots went to my network noticed it automatically recognized and configured the new Ethernet 2 port and disconnected the old ethernet connection. Nothing for me to do except "Fire it up!"Which I opened my browser and went out onto Fast.com and to my surprise, my old decrepit computer was once again playing with the big boys on the internet!Taking the upgraded 1GB internet service wher I had faster than before speeds of 90Mbps over the old 100Mbps service of I would only get 45-72 Mbps to now 500+Mbps on this laptop! At this point I got all tingly and though I wasn't getting the 600-860Mbps speeds the newer machines with 1GB+ capabilities my poor old laptops were now faster than I ever thought possible!Making this $10.99 + tax with my Prime Member Free Shipping the best $10...$10.99 + tax purchase of 2019!Thanks CableCreations! Thanks Amazon!... (in a lower voice) Thanks Jeff!! :DAttached photos are the real deal!THE END!.... Actually... THE BEGINNING!

Summary: As best as I can tell, this USB Ethernet adapter works fine. I would recommend using the latest driver from Realtek's website.My original review and subsequent update are below.So, I plugged this 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet adapter in and verified that it had negotiated 2.5 GbE uplink with my 10 GbE TrendNet switch. Then initiated a 8 GB file transfer of a single zip file over the network. The result? 35-45 MB/s.....what? For the record, that's way worse than Gigabit Ethernet which can do about 110 MB/s.As first I thought that maybe the USB 3.0 port on my test computer was broken. So I tried with another computer. Same result. Didn't matter what 3.x USB port and didn't matter if I was connecting to my 10 GbE Trendnet switch or my 1 GbE Cisco switch.My network file server is connected via a 10 GbE uplink and is running solid state storage. It will happily transfer large files at 112-113 MB/s over Gigabit Ethernet and 1 GB/s over 10 GbE. So clearly it isn't the bottleneck.I will ask Amazon to send me a new one, hopefully it works better.Update:So the replacement adapter arrived and I had some time to do some more testing last night. Started fresh and had Windows delete all existing drivers and then installed the latest ones from Realtek's website.The 40-45 MB/s speed problem went away and instead I started getting 8-12 MB/s when trying to download a file from my file server. Had a WTF!!! moment and plugged in the original adapter in and it behaved the same. 8-12 MB/s download.Next, I tried uploading a file to the file server and it blazed away at a solid 270-280 MB/s. Tried downloading from the file server...and 8-12 MB/s again. Same behavior in both adapters.The topology looks like thisTest Computer <--2.5 GbE link--> Trendnet TEG-7080ES switch <--10 GbE link--> FreeNAS File ServerSo evidently there is a setting, or flow control problem, or something else that is wrong. At any rate it's beyond me at the moment.I verified that the CableCreation 2.5GbE USB Adapters aren't at fault by configuring the Aquantia AQN-107 10GbE chip built into my motherboard to link at 2.5 Gbps and the same issue happened. Full speed upload and 20-22 MB/s download to/from the file server. Tried at 5 Gbps and the same thing too.Interestingly this issue does not happen at Gigabit Ethernet speeds. It's a solid 112 MB/s up and down all day long.PC <--1 GbE link--> TEG-7080ES switch <--10 GbE link--> File Server GoodPC <--2.5 GbE link--> TEG-7080ES switch <--10 GbE link--> File Server SlowestPC <--5.0 GbE link--> TEG-7080ES switch <--10 GbE link--> File Server SlowerPC <--10 GbE link--> TEG-7080ES switch <--10 GbE link--> File Server SPEEEDTLDR:Maybe I did have a driver issue before. However, I have been unable to re-create my original 45 MB/s problem. As best I can tell, the USB adapters actually work fine. More importantly, I discovered that my switch doesn't play nice with mixed multi-gigabit signals even though it's clearly advertised as NBASE-T compatible.

I have a Samsung 2 360 Chromebook and my home wifi was AOK but ...I finally realized I needed to get an ethernet dongle and I had an unused USB-A 3.0 port and wala this item, USB to Ethernet Adapter, CableCreation USB 3.0 to 10/100/1000 Gigabit Wired LAN Network was ordered and now I have the speed I was paying for.My wifi is still AOK for my phone & tablet but my chromebook stays put and why not get the faster speed.I recommend this speed increase device to anyone that wants the faster speeds for a stationary device.I recommend this Cable Creation company and my past Cable Creation purchases proves they are top shelf.