Questions & Answers for Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter

Yes, It will work on any Apple brand backup device. BTW enjoy your new MacBook when it arrives. It is a beast. With the 3.O USB (512gb SSHD) I up load at an average rate of 150mbs. ENJOY!!!

• Answered by Jo M from Huntersville
• Jul 31, 2012
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To use this Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter simultaneously with a video adapter such as the MiniDisplayport to VGA Adapter, you would need either two built-in Thunderbolt ports, such as the new 15" MacBook Pro with Retina Display, or a Thunderbolt hub, or another external device that has more than two Thunderbolt ports that you could use as a hub.

• Answered by Jeffrey Y from Westmont
• Jun 13, 2012
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Your current iMac should already have gigabit Ethernet installed in it. So using this Gigabit Thunderbolt adapter shouldn't increase your speed since both are still using Gigabit Ethernet. Based on reviews from other sites it might actually be slightly slower than the built in Ethernet and use more CPU power.

• Answered by Tyler S from Velva
• Jun 21, 2012
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This adapter is not necessary to connect your iMac to your Time Capsule for internet access and for your Time Machine backups. Time Capsule and iMac can be connected via Wifi. In almost all cases, though, using this adapter with a decent ethernet cable (I recommend at least a Cat 5e ethernet cable) connected hard-wired to your Time Capsule will not only improve your internet speed on your iMac, but also your Time Machine backup speed. The actual improvement in speed of these things will depend on your current internet speed and distance between the iMac and Time Capsule along with other possible interferences. In most cases, though, I would say the average user would notice a slight increase in performance, and the power user to notice a significant performance increase.

If you deal with backup up many large files and are a heavy-bandwidth user, I woul definitely recommend using this adapter with either a Cat 5e or Cat 6 cable.

• Answered by Jeffrey Y from Westmont
• Jun 13, 2012
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Probably not.
Most Thunderbolt Ext HDD don't have much processing power and just respond to calls from your computer to store data or send data.

There's no support for NAS (network attached storage) built-in to existing Thunderbolt Ext HDDs.

• Answered by Chris S from San Jose
• Jun 19, 2012
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Once Apple updates and re-releases the Thunderbolt driver for the gigabit adapter, it will be a supported ethernet interface on the Mac and will support passing that through to Parallels and VMs hosted there.

• Answered by Jay D from San Marcos
• Jun 16, 2012
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No, I have tested this.

• Answered by Joshua G from Ft Lauderdale
• Nov 3, 2012
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Apple will be releasing a FireWire 800 to Thunderbolt adapter this July.

• Answered by Dean S from Encino
• Jun 28, 2012
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Yes, this adapter will work with all sizes of the 2011 MacBook Pro, along with every Mac with a built-in Thunderbolt port.

• Answered by Jeffrey Y from Westmont
• Jun 13, 2012
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Thunderbolt speeds are up to 10 Gigabits per second, whereas Gigabit Ethernet is 1 Gigabit per second. Therefore, this adapter doesn't take full advantage of Thunderbolt's speed, but it is definitely faster than the Apple USB to Ethernet Adapter, because not only is USB rated at only up to 480 Megabits per second (under half 1 Gigabit), but it is also a 10/100 adapter instead of this 10/100/1000 adapter.

If you do not have a built-in Gigabit ethernet port on your Mac, such as the newer MacBook Air's and the 15" MacBook Pro with Retina Display, and you wish to have ethernet connection, I would highly recommend this product over other ethernet adapters because in most cases it will have better transfer speeds because of the use of Thunderbolt.

• Answered by Jeffrey Y from Westmont
• Jun 13, 2012
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