I’ve been wanting to pickup one of the Apple USB to Ethernet adapters for a while now, and as well as trying it with a bunch of mobile devices I had a change to plug it in and give it a try with my RB751G.
As you can see the device is detected instantly (Tested with v5.4 so I assume it will work with anything onwards) and no reboot is required for the ethernet adaptor to appear and function! It was loaded just seconds after I plugged it in:
I imagine you could use multiple devices if you had a hub however given the speed limit of USB 2.0 (480Mbps) you would be limited to how many you could attach and still get full throughput. The adapter is 10/100BASE-T so no gigabit here.
Just for the sake of it I ran some btests between my RB1100AHX2 and the RB751G-2HnD with the Apple Ethernet Adaptor. Could easily achieve 100Mbps half duplex when testing from the RB1100AHX2 for traffic generation however trying to do a full duplex test was maxing out the CPU on the RB751 so I would get around 150~Mbps of throughput.
The max MTU size for the adaptor is 1518, this is not listed anywhere that I could find but was determined through simple trial and error.
Side note: If you’re looking for Windows 7 drivers to test this out on a PC; I found the recommendations and files at this site worked perfectly.
Awesome
Interesting… I’ve got curious about others USB adapters.
As noted, I actually bought it to try with a bunch of mobile devices and tablets but it’s good to know it works there if needed
Feel free to let me know of any others you try and I’ll add them to the list.