Ethernet 2 Adapter

[Earleen Statham]

I originally had my equipment plugged into an ethernet switch, and it showed up as a network device in MAX. Eventually, we will move this device between 10 different stations, so I thought it would be nicer to get 1 USB-Ethernet dongle rather than 10 ethernet switches.

I'm using Windows 7, and got this model of adapter from Anker. I've installed the drivers, and I see the connection in "My Network Connections", but I don't see anything in MAX yet. I've tried disabling the firewall, but that did not change anything. Does anyone have tips for getting this connection to show up in MAX?

To begin with when you said "I originally had my equipment plugged into an ethernet switch" I take it that means you had teh computer connected to the switch and the device you were testing also attached to the switch, right?

I would like to connect to the office's network through the built in network card (which is the setup at the customer site), and connect an instrument to a USB port using the USB to ethernet adapter. Previously, I was connecting both the network and the instrument to a switch, which was connected to my computer.

Ah.. Got it, but in general the USB NIC should look just like ant otehr network connection. What you are missing is things like a DHCP server that hand out the IP adresses to devices tha are plugged into the network.

Assuming you've already checked the network configuration settings so both devices are on the same subnet - the cable is probably the problem. I have had problems in the past with USB Ethernet adapters not auto-detecting that it was a crossover cable and it's quite likely that it's not supported by instruments. Either pick up a crossover cable, or get a little plug-in crossover adapter.

As it is I have the MyCloud-EX2 connected to one of my NetGear switches. I was under the impression that, essentially being daisy chained, performance would be inferior to connecting directly to a single dedicated USB 2.0 port?

2b. Connect your USB2.0, but prerabbly USB3.0 HDD to the back of the WD EX2 and just copy the data over. This is the fastest way to get all your date over initally, then from here on out, in theory it will all be smaller incremental backups.

[C] All major devices (ie. modem, master PC, NetGear switches, wall line-adapter) are connected to 5Ghz ports on rear of router. I have mostly transferred, or loaded, archives between devices in this manner.

We've got an iPad which for some reason has lost its WiFi settings and is stuck on the passcode screen as the user does not remember the passcode. Obviously we could wipe and restore it to get the user back in, but the user reports there's data on there that they want to keep. Will acquiring a Lightning to Ethernet adapter and plugging this in to our wired network allow us to send the Clear Passcode MDM command from Jamf Pro?

I would keep in mind that if that is the first unlock since it was booted, it will not connect to wifi until it is unlocked. It may be possible it won't connect to ethernet either until it is unlocked.

@Fluffy that's less than ideal, what good even is the Clear Passcode command if the situations where you'd want to send it don't allow network access? The device was enrolled with DEP into Jamf Pro, does that relax those restrictions at all?

@FutureFacinLuke so what you're saying is, for every iPad we deploy, we need to have already plugged an Ethernet adaptor into it to be able to use Clear Passcode? We didn't even own an Ethernet adaptor for iPad until today.

This works reliably for us. The only caveat is that the iPad has to have USB Restricted Mode turned off. You can do this with a profile proactively, but that won't help you much now. You may get lucky and the user has turned it off themselves, but it's on by default.

The wording on this setting doesn't explain it very well. If you have it set to allow then it won't allow new USB connections. If you have it set to Restrict then it will allow USB connections. So for your issue, you need it set to Restrict but this won't help for the current iPad as it's not getting any new commands due to being offline. You can always try the Ethernet trick but there's a good chance it won't work.

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My home pfsense box has USB 2 and 3.0. My home connection is Spectrum, so my rates suck at around 70mbps down and a whopping 6mbps up. As you can see, speed issues from openVPN are not really a concern. And only traffic going to my work network goes across the VPN.

Cheapo generic AX88xx white plastic USB 2 gives me full speed 70/6mbps with a speed test, too bad these are the ones that overheat because they do work fine up to almost 100mbps when I was using one at work. Going to cut the plastic case off today and see if I can make a better heat path to some aluminum for a sink.

I might just give up and try an old HP T610 Plus thin client with an ethernet card installed. Getting kind of old and not much info on them with pfSense other than one or two people talking about install issue with 2.4 but 2.35 installed fine, then upgrade to 2.4x. Not sure I want to toss the $70 out on a test with something that low power, not going to do much more for me if pfsense fails.

If I was you I would either buy a Raspberry Pi, install openVPN and plug that into your current router or buy a cheap box off eBay with multiple ethernet ports. With your internet speeds you can easily saturate your lines with basic kit.

I ended up buying an HP T620 plus with 4gb RAM and 16gb flash and a 4 port Intel Pro gigabit network card installed. Should be here by about Saturday. These are supposed to run at about 10 watts with this card installed, and get decent speed in routing and VPN. Also AES-NI support and the card should let me offload a bunch of overhead from the CPU.

With the old USB adapter, even with the air holes cut I was still getting numerous connection interruptions, not enough to take me off the system, but enough that proved this new computer was the correct choice.

I will say that the goobers I have used are Apple

USB3-GigE and Thunderbolt-GigE flavors with no tears.

I include this factoid because MacOS and tvOS (based on NetBSD, btw)

are both notoriously picky about who they play with.

Hey there, sorry for the late response but could you give some insight on this? Just bought the SG105e and i also have a microcomputer that I want to use as a PFSense router but cannot add NICs to it.

The short answer is that none are really great. Heat is a problem with many, and even the AX88xxx chips that used to work sort of OK are a problem now (at least all of mine were). The issue was short but frequent disconnects that can bee seen in an error log. They may be good when the load is very low, but once you start moving data, there are a lot of retransmits happening.

So I ended up getting this fixed, though I think it was completely random, but after I ran the network reset, I had the user undock and redock, and then all of a sudden the adapter came back. So who the hell knows.

If you need a business warranty you need to work with a proper reseller, a commercial surface reseller can provide forward replacements or even things like having a spare pool of machines available in advance that you manage yourself, while the warranty swap out is handled at the back end.

I have been fiddling with the settings of my Homey Pro (Early 2023) with LAN adapter. I have noticed that when I go to Settings > General > About in the app, in the connectivity section at the voice Ethernet Connected the value is NO.

I thought I had the same issue as Corto - an Ethernet adapter not working. After after I studied your diagram, I realized that I had simply hooked up USB cables incorrectly. Once I plugged the correct USB ends in, it works!

Seen enough messages of people that said they correctly connected the ethernet adapter, but in the end still had it the wrong way around and still had the short cable in Homey Pro, hence why I said it.

I have an MSI MPG Z390 Gaming Edge AC motherboard and I'm having some trouble with my ethernet adapter. It was working fine up until about 3 days ago when all of a sudden stopped working - at first, it appeared to be connected to an "unidentified network" before completely disappearing from my list of adapters in network settings.

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