On 03/19/2017 08:25 AM, David wrote: > On 03/19/2017 05:45 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: >> The recent thread about the Lantronix XPort caught my attention. >> A quick search found a variety of USB to ethernet adapters. >> >> I will be visiting a local Staples next week. Their website lists several. >> What should I look for? >> A better question might be "What should I avoid?" >> TIA > > I can't speak for Staples specifically, but I recently bought a laptop > without RJ-45 on-board and successfully used both an old Netgear FA120 > and an Apple USB-RJ45 without any problems. > > The only thing to note (if not mentioned elsewhere already) is that most > of the USB dongles only support 100MB speeds for data transfer. If you > need speeds exceeding that, you may run into compatibility issues with > Linux and likely pay a premium for that feature. > > dafr
My only speed criteria is that it is as fast the 56k dialup link I used up until ~1 year ago. Also, the old machine that prompted this question only has USB 2. Thank you _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
