Apple USB Ethernet Adaptor

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3.5 out of 5 stars

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  • 1.0 out of 5 stars

    Major Letdown-Check this B4 buy new Airbook

    • Written by from Albuquerque

    Writing this as I watch the meter telling me it'll be another 10 hours to move my data from my Airbook to my Mini running X-Server so I can drop back to Snow till I have time to update some of my old software. Can't trust only a time machine backup when planning to reformat computer.

    For 30 years I've been using Macs and never had to worry about I/O options, always the best, I have over 30 of em around my businesses. Get home with new Mac Air purchased on good faith without even considering checking the I/O options and looking forward to see how much faster my network will perform with the latest. Then connect my external monitor to the thunderbolt port (beautiful resolution on the 32" LED) and look around for the RJ-45 and realize it's not there. No prob, go grab one of these adapters and it'll be done (never mind the extra expense), after all USB speeds are almost same as Gbps. Get back and plug it in, Hmmm seems awfully slow for Gb which has been available on every Mac for at least 5 years, in fact normally the problem is finding other hardware to take advantage of Macs fastest I/O options. So what's wrong, OK ended up at this page, didn't say anything about speed on the package. Oh No it's only 10/100.

    So much for having a Gigabit Cat 6 hardwired house, it's like dropping back 10 years with ethernet at 10/100 speed. Probably be using my 4 year old MacBook and giving my new Airbook along with this adapter to my 3 year old kid since there aren't any other options for the external monitor and ethernet (can't use an 11" computer at home). But then again, why give him the adapter, the WiFi gets a full 100 Mbps anyway.

    Hmmm. Maybe they made the Airbooks a little too small.

    30 year Mac Lover who's a bit disappointed this time

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  • 3.0 out of 5 stars

    Functional, but slow

    • Written by from Mogadore

    I purchased this product for an end-user who purchased a MacBook Air (has no ethernet adapter onboard)... First thought was to use wired internet to download all updates/applications, however was disappointed - download speed was 60 kbps (have had download speeds up to 10 mbps on connection), so switched to wireless, which gave 1.0 mbps on same download. Wireless is much faster then ethernet can handle with this adapter. Only way I see this adapter worth while is if wireless is completely unavailable on your network...

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  • 2.0 out of 5 stars

    doesn't work with time machine

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    Having a Macbook Air for almost two years, I look forward to a faster connection and hence choose this 100Mbps adapter. Unfortunately, this connection would allow me to use the time machine enabled on my NAS. ....

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  • 4.0 out of 5 stars

    usb modem

    • Written by from SAN DIEGO

    I like to send faxes directly from my iMac, and this has been a boon to let me save paper, and keep all faxes in the same folder. Very good, reliable, and simple.
    My only caveat with the piece is that it will only work in a 32bit environment, which is what *no* new iMacs come with. And the 64bit platform truly is a very lean and powerful machine.

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  • 1.0 out of 5 stars

    Does NOT work with Lion

    • Written by from Middleton

    Apparently this modem does not work in 64bit mode, which is the default for Lion. It appears I now have a useless piece of hardware hanging from the back of my iMac. Do not buy this if you have Lion or plan to upgrade.

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  • 2.0 out of 5 stars

    Does Its Job - But NO Gigabit? Really?

    • Written by from Mount Airy

    Again, Apple continues to confound me with providing an elegant-working solution to provide a hardwired Ethernet port to the Macbook Air, but designing it to run at 100 Mbps. Yes - 100 MEGABITS PER SECOND. Really, Apple? I find it hard to believe it would have cost any more to provide a 1Gbps adapter...

    Let's all get Erasertop haircuts and go see the Bel Biv Devoe concert since our Ethernet connections run at speeds from the 90s. Booooooo!

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