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Nighthawk mr5100 vs Ethernet
ATT says I can connect Desktop to Nighthawk via a ethernet cable. Netgear says no. Who do I believe and why. Here is ATT version: How to connect your device to the internet via Ethernet. Connec...
Good info on the USB2Eth dongle. Browsing through the tech sheet, it sounds like it's only gigabit, which is plenty, but for a usb-c device, i was expecting it to be at least 2.5G. can't see pricing on it yet.
USB-C is a connector, with USB 4.0 standard supporting link rates of up to 20 Mb/s, 40 Mb/s, 80 MB/s. The USB2Eth dongle offered by Netgear is initially priced around 40 EUR / CHF, and it's inded a 1000 Mb/s GbE. Yes, for the similar price, 2.5 GbE and even 5 GbE variants are available in the market.
The state-of-the-art Netgear M7 Pro does come with a built-in 2.5 GbE port, does offer up to 10Gbps USB tethrering, does support WiFi 7 including the 6 GHz band (up to 320 MHz bandwidth).
The USB2Eth does include a PD-input port, required to operate, power, and charge.
Well possible, the USB2Eth was specified to be workable with earlier Mobile routers, like M1, M2, M3, M5, M6 - despite of being USB 3.0/3.1) which don't have the hardware and software (bridge!) throughput capabilities of the M7 Pro.
What exact usage you have in mind for this dongle?