Gigabit Ethernet

[neteng101]

Anyone has trouble getting the drivers to install for the Monoprice adapter? I can't get them to install, it fails with an installation failure.

 

[ender21]

Anyone has trouble getting the drivers to install for the Monoprice adapter? I can't get them to install, it fails with an installation failure.

You might want to try the Asix site directly for their drivers. It's the basis for both the Monoprice and the Sabrent from TigerDirect.

http://www.asix.com.tw/products.php?op=pItemdetail&PItemID=84;71;100&PLine=71

 

[neteng101]

All the Asix site provides for 10.6 is a PDF that says it should already be supported. I can see/configure the adapter but DHCP doesn't work.

 

[ender21]

All the Asix site provides for 10.6 is a PDF that says it should already be supported. I can see/configure the adapter but DHCP doesn't work.

Try the one for 10.4. Thats the one I use. I could not get native functionality on mine.

 

[aberrero]

If we only ever need it to connect to one router, we just set a static IP on the router and then use the same one in sys prefs?

So to the people that have this and are using it with the driver, does it work well?

 

[neteng101]

10.4 drivers did it - now its working. Seeing about 160+ mbps on a file transfer from my NAS.

Static IP does not work either - until I found a driver that works.

Edit - 172.5 mbps on a 19.84GB file via an AFP share, my NAS might be limiting somewhat.

 

[aberrero]

10.4 drivers did it - now its working. Seeing about 160+ mbps on a file transfer from my NAS.

Static IP does not work either - until I found a driver that works.

Edit - 172.5 mbps on a 19.84GB file via an AFP share, my NAS might be limiting somewhat.

Thanks a lot, thats what I wanted to hear. Now I'm thinking of buying another one for my server since it only has 10/100 right now.

 

[mumstead]

10.4 drivers did it - now its working. Seeing about 160+ mbps on a file transfer from my NAS.

Static IP does not work either - until I found a driver that works.

Edit - 172.5 mbps on a 19.84GB file via an AFP share, my NAS might be limiting somewhat.

Your NAS or network must be limiting. I get 346 mbps from my Mac Mini server on a large file transfer.

 

[hachre]

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB442Z/A?fnode=MTY1NDEyMQ&mco=MTA4NzI5MTg

Though hat will limit you to USB speeds (25 to 35 MB/s).

And the above posts ....

This adapter limits you to ~12.5 MB/s since it has a 100 MBit/s ethernet port.

Edit: Sorry I just saw this has been covered on the first page already. Some mod may delete this

 

[barmann]

10.4 drivers did it - now its working. Seeing about 160+ mbps on a file transfer from my NAS.

Static IP does not work either - until I found a driver that works.

Wouldn't it be terribly kind of you to share the darn link to this driver ?

Then again, my MBA works with the monoprice adapter, a static IP and no extra drivers installed .

 

[neteng101]

Wouldn't it be terribly kind of you to share the darn link to this driver ?

I used the one that came on the CD with the Monoprice adapter, version 2.2.0 for 10.4.

Do you have 10.6.5 on your MBA which you got working without installing any driver?

 

[aberrero]

if you don't mind uploading it, that would be helpful. The one on the website is 2.0.4.

 

[neteng101]

Ok here's the package...

 

[aberrero]

Thanks. I wanted to make sure that it installed properly before buying the adapter.

 

[HelsinkiMac]

alexcf - did you get your adapters yet? Did it install fine? Which vendor did you buy from, most of the UK ones would not ship to Europe or were business to business only, and I put an order in with monoprice but they want me to fax a copy of my credit card and ID! I've a air on order which should be here in a week, and want one of these for the transfer as I'm going to need to swap about 200 GB of stuff...

 

[alexcf]

alexcf - did you get your adapters yet? Did it install fine? Which vendor did you buy from, most of the UK ones would not ship to Europe or were business to business only, and I put an order in with monoprice but they want me to fax a copy of my credit card and ID! I've a air on order which should be here in a week, and want one of these for the transfer as I'm going to need to swap about 200 GB of stuff...

Hi!

Got it today, works great. Try StarTech direct, it's where I got mine... I got 30MB/sec between my desktop and my MBA, so I'm a happy chappy.

Thanks for all your help and suggestions guys. FYI, the monoprice and startech dongles are the same, just branded differently. Not sure if someone's already covered that!

Good luck!

 

[HelsinkiMac]

Thanks that's good to know it all works! Can I ask how much you paid? Startech want £50 plus an unspecified amount of european postage... compared to £34 including superfast tracked postage from the states from monoprice, but I need to find a fax machine before the latter will accept my order!

 

[alexcf]

Thanks that's good to know it all works! Can I ask how much you paid? Startech want £50 plus an unspecified amount of european postage... compared to £34 including superfast tracked postage from the states from monoprice, but I need to find a fax machine before the latter will accept my order!

Yeah, £50 sounds about right. I bought 3 of them though, and it's a business expense for us, so can claime the VAT back!

I'd go down the Monoprice route, you just might get stung for import duty...

 

[double329]

I just received mine monoprice adapter today. Without any driver, the MBA detect the device. But, it couldn't get IP from DHCP. Manually setup seems to be fine. I installed the the driver 3.2 posted here. After reboot, my MBA was able to get the IP from DHCP server successfully. I have not done any real data transfer test. I was just making sure I can get online. I might test it later


I did a quick non-scientific file copy test today and here is what I got:

- simple file copy from Win7(Gigabit wired) to MBA (wifi N 5Ghz), file size 730MB. Copy took 5min 12sec
- simple file copy from Win7(Gigabit wired) to MBA (Gigabit Wired), file size 730MB. Copy took 1min 9sec.

 

[weckart]

Yeah, £50 sounds about right. I bought 3 of them though, and it's a business expense for us, so can claime the VAT back!

I'd go down the Monoprice route, you just might get stung for import duty...

Plenty of clones of the Asix on offer on eBay at less than £15, so no VAT considerations for UKers or possibly Finns, too, if you are prepared to wait a little for shipping from China.

Cheapest price for Startech in the UK is probably at Insight at about £27 delivered, but low stocks.

 

[J273]

Plenty of clones of the Asix on offer on eBay at less than £15, so no VAT considerations for UKers or possibly Finns, too, if you are prepared to wait a little for shipping from China.

Cheapest price for Startech in the UK is probably at Insight at about £27 delivered, but low stocks.

Do you have any links for the clones on the bay at all?

Thanks

 

[weckart]

One, Two, Three, Four

Just search eBay for 'gigabit ethernet usb'. Seriously, how hard can that be?

 

[aberrero]

- simple file copy from Win7(Gigabit wired) to MBA (Gigabit Wired), file size 730MB. Copy took 1min 9sec.

If my math is correct, that is only 85mbps.

 

[mesca]

Which speeds reports the sd card slot? I mean if it would be possible to use as a port.

 

[darkplanets]

I hate to derail this slightly, but above someone asked if OSX would support multiple NIC via multiple USB adapters with load balancing... I too am curious.