$30 5GbE-to-USB Adapters Are a THING NOW (Wavlink Adapter Review)

I just purchased a type c to 2.5 😩

Wonderful review, Awesome tool for macbook and new windows laptops

Weird question.... i would maby like to use such an adapter on the nas side.(10gbit) if it is posible in the future enyways... sinse i want to use it and my ups and posibly an expanding unit in the future can i attach an usb dongle on the usb port and connect the ups and 10gbit in tendam?

Glad that it seems to actually do 5Gbps. Previous solutions like the Sabrent adapter used to top out at about 3.6Gbps due to USB overhead.

I bought OWC 10GbE Thunderbolt Adapter for my Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge but snapdragon doesnt comminucate with thunderbolt, i only have 2 USB4 ports, i think this is the best adapter for me, bye bye 2.5 ugreen :) hello 5GbE , ordered from amazon de for 30,49 Euro ( if you read this, please reply me with a 10GbE usb 4 adapter link or name, not thunderbolt 3 or 4.Thank you)

I am clearly not understanding the Synology demo part of this video. I totally understand when he had it hooked to his laptop, but I think that was a DS923 and that comes with a 1 GBE port; wouldn't that be the bottle neck here? What am I missing?

Great review. Thanks a lot. Did you get a feel for the temperature under load and idle? I have a QNAP 5Gbps adaptor (you probably know it well) and it is super toasty both in operation and at idle. Wonder how this compares.

Been using my WisdPi USB 3.2 5Gbps adapter using the same Realtek chip. Good to see more adapters coming out at an affordable price. Edit: Found it locally for $20! That's a steal.

usb-a would have meant a very limiting 5v and approx 2A.

So you’re saying all my 2.5gb switches will become obsolete in a couple years? 😂

I'd be happy if it wasn't Realtek chip based, but good to see some options out there

Did you manage to try this out on any older usb3 A ports? Eg. 3.1G1 aka 3.0, or 3.1G2
I'm wondering if it's relying on usb3.2 (dual lane) to get actual throughput above 5gbps.

♪ What is NAS! Data don't leave me! Don't leave me! No more! ♪
( Head Shake )

Some day we'll have USB4 40 Gbps being used for the same function. Not now or any time soon, but one day... eventually.
(fingers crossed)

Nice!

You say drivers are available for Mac, but I’m only seeing drivers for up to MacOS 10.15, which is from 2020, so nothing for Apple silicon.

I haven't had very good luck with Realink NICs in any of my linux servers :-(

Is it hot?

Great to see something like this is available. I'll be really excited when there's better NAS support for them.

What can I use on my Synology 920+? For faster network speeds

I guess it's the USB 3.2 that's changed, baecause I've had two 5GbE USB adapters and the USB overhead meant they were barely any faster than 2.5GbE LAN.

I know TrueNAS doesn't like Realtec multi-gigabit NICs, so that could be an issue. It's still a gateway product though and will probably spark a new price point for these devices from other brands.

Probably 5gbe switches is the limitation factor

Go large or go home… start from the core infrastructure as much B.Width as possible and future proof as far as possible… as often said buy cheap you’ll buy twice, so what’s cheaper in the long run ? Buy once, buy the best you can…

Realtek based 5gbs pcie cards are 20$ usd on AliExpress

Man!! I just bought a full 2.5Gbps infrastructure (2 Radxa X4 + 2.5 POE switch + Qotom 2.5 router) !! 😂

Finally something affordable to upgrade my nas and other networked devices with thanks for bringing this to our attention. Was considering 10Gbps but the price was making me hesitate.

(Me swimming in my pile of coins...) OK, I'll give you 5GbE for a laptop is sweet for not a lot of dosh. Not good enough for a NAS where the bandwidth is shared possibly among a small office or even home. Most of the time it would be fine, except when it's just frustrating. Better than 1 and 2.5, yeah, no doubt.

I don’t see it listed on the Newegg website or Amazon. Do you know when it’s gonna be released for public sale?

PLEASE cut out then unnecessary bad language. It degrades your otherwise excellent videos.

what about qnap nas

It’s about ~$37 USD stateside. Anyone know if it’ll work as advertised using a Thunderbolt 4 port?

Where are the 5GbE switches though?

The biggest issue is the pricing on 5G switches -- it's often cheaper to go 10GbE directly.

That just means 10g for 40 bucks is right around the corner.

Your new studio looks so cool!

That cheaper on AliExpress link will default you to the 2.5gbe adaptor. The 5gbe is still £26+vat

Well, I just spent $30 on a kind of junky 1 Gbps USB NIC yesterday, so, of course, these enter the market at the same time.

Y'all are welcome. ;)

What kind of hit does the CPU take?

Will it run at 2.5 gbe until I can update my switch?

Everybody with a machine that doesn't have a rj45 (and even that is no guarantee) should have at least one usb to Ethernet adapter. It saved me when havingbto reinstall windows on my sons laptop. Windows didn't recognize the wifi during setup. if I hadn't bought such a usb device for my camera I would have had to send the machine away for installing windows. This saved us a week at least

I purchased one of these, and the USB drops out every time it is going full 5Gb during a LAN speed test. (System = AMD B550M) This is with the latest driver available from Realtek and chipset drivers from AMD. Gonna test on an older intel laptop next, but it's totally unreliable now.

What are the security implications for using these (mainly Chinese) USB to Ethernet adapters? Could they install malware or alter the system configuration unnoticed?

It's out of stock with most UK venders, Amazon etc. I've ordered mine from Aliexpress.

The aquantia chip that the older solutions used is likely going to be more stable and better supported but hard to argue with $30

Hi I bought a Realtek 2.5Gbe USB gaming controller dongle using it on windows 11 24H2 machine on USB 3 connection, I also installed the latest driver from Realtek site. My router has 1G lan ports and my boardband is 1000m. However when I tested the internet speed I only got 300+mbps on bothe download and upload. I wonder if there is any setting on device mangaer I need to set eg jumbo frames etc I have to do. Also is there anything to do with my router setting? Thanks

works with proxmox?

bad product, order other day and cant even pass 400mbps. of course follow the instructions etc