<p dir="ltr">I bought a "pluggable usb3-hub3me" for around $30. GigE plus 3 usb3 ports and the driver is in the kernel since late 3.5 series. I've not tested the throughput yet as I mostly use it at work and congestion on the wire is only exceeded by congestion on the wireless.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 13, 2015 3:54 PM, "DJ-Pfulio" <<a href="mailto:DJPfulio@jdpfu.com">DJPfulio@jdpfu.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 08/13/2015 02:23 PM, Raylynn Knight wrote:<br>
> Obviously you would invalidate the effort of using a PC if you still resort to USB Ethernet devices.<br>
<br>
A Chromebook C720 using a USB3-to-GigE adapter tests to about 500 Mbps<br>
with iperf.<br>
<br>
$ iperf -c istar<br>
------------------------------------------------------------<br>
Client connecting to istar, TCP port 5001<br>
TCP window size: 43.8 KByte (default)<br>
------------------------------------------------------------<br>
[ 3] local 172.22.22.11 port 44658 connected with 172.22.22.20 port 5001<br>
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth<br>
[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 603 MBytes 505 Mbits/sec<br>
<br>
<br>
Not an extensive test, but going to other machines on the network showed<br>
similar results from the C720. Those other machines test in the 940+<br>
Mbps between each other. As a gige router, not good enough, but as a<br>
WAN gateway - probably fine for most of us who will never see GigE<br>
connections.<br>
<br>
Is anyone here signed up for the 2Gbps service from Comcsst at home for<br>
$300/month + $500 install + $500 "activation" + $??? equipment fees?<br>
Comcast claims 1.5M people in the Atlanta area can get this service.<br>
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