As a cautionary tale about the importance of paying attention during online shopping, I ended up buying this device under the mistaken impression that it provided USB 3.0 and Gigabit Ethernet via Thunderbolt but instead it does via USB 3.0 on the host machine. It didn't help that the description on Amazon mentioned Thunderbolt as an interface: perhaps I should complain to Amazon about being misled...
Originally my plan was to use it as a Gigabit Ethernet and USB 3.0 solution on my Thunderbolt equipped 2011 MBA and/or my 2011 13" MBP for the USB 3.0 functionality but no matter, something that will actually fit that requirement is on its way to me and this is still useful for my 2010 C2D MBA as a cost effective all-in-one dongle that offers DP, HDMI 2x USB (reduced to 2.0) and a LAN port.
As a comparison, just buying Apple's Ethernet adapter for the C2D MBA alone cost $29 USD and is only 10/100!
The drivers from Gofanco's website worked with Catalina and Mojave (they've also provided Big Sur compatibility too) and despite being listed as compatible with Snow Leopard - the drivers start from Mavericks. An email to their tech support dept resulted in a URL to drivers for the wrong product which uses a completely different chipset from my device, despite me explicitly specifying which product I was using.
With a bit of detective work I managed to track down the correct Snow Leopard driver elsewhere on the Internet and notified Gofanco so that at least they're aware of what they need to do in order to prevent future occurrences of this situation. These so-called tech support personnel never fail to astound me with their incompetence.
Anyhow, here it is detected in Catalina and happily enabling me to access the Internet via Ethernet.
Question time: am I correct in assuming that even though the hub is operating in a reduced capacity at USB 2.0 that this bandwidth is still sufficient for the LAN interface to provide the MBA with true Gigabit Ethernet functionality?
As always, I appreciate any clarifications or confirmations that can be shared.
Originally my plan was to use it as a Gigabit Ethernet and USB 3.0 solution on my Thunderbolt equipped 2011 MBA and/or my 2011 13" MBP for the USB 3.0 functionality but no matter, something that will actually fit that requirement is on its way to me and this is still useful for my 2010 C2D MBA as a cost effective all-in-one dongle that offers DP, HDMI 2x USB (reduced to 2.0) and a LAN port.
As a comparison, just buying Apple's Ethernet adapter for the C2D MBA alone cost $29 USD and is only 10/100!
The drivers from Gofanco's website worked with Catalina and Mojave (they've also provided Big Sur compatibility too) and despite being listed as compatible with Snow Leopard - the drivers start from Mavericks. An email to their tech support dept resulted in a URL to drivers for the wrong product which uses a completely different chipset from my device, despite me explicitly specifying which product I was using.
With a bit of detective work I managed to track down the correct Snow Leopard driver elsewhere on the Internet and notified Gofanco so that at least they're aware of what they need to do in order to prevent future occurrences of this situation. These so-called tech support personnel never fail to astound me with their incompetence.
Anyhow, here it is detected in Catalina and happily enabling me to access the Internet via Ethernet.
Question time: am I correct in assuming that even though the hub is operating in a reduced capacity at USB 2.0 that this bandwidth is still sufficient for the LAN interface to provide the MBA with true Gigabit Ethernet functionality?
As always, I appreciate any clarifications or confirmations that can be shared.
