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This is interesting - and more importantly, is there any part of the ethernet standard they don't support? I only ask, as at my university there were a number o
by 14113 13y ago
This is interesting - and more importantly, is there any part of the ethernet standard they don't support? I only ask, as at my university there were a number of networks that students simply couldn't connect to if they used any ethernet adaptors. Oddly enough, thunderbolt adaptors, and ethernet on the motherboard worked fine, just USB adaptors didn't work.
- hafflelog 13y agoIf there is a part of the standard they don't support, it's a bug in the component.
- rhizome 13y agoonce upon a time there were chipsets that didn't play well with autonegotiated switch ports.
- nknighthb 13y agoThere have been times in the past when I've found almost every USB ethernet adapter available on the market to be of a single chipset. If one very common chip at that time had a poor interaction with your school's switches, boom. Most of the time, the cheap no-name electronics I've encountered have been pretty feature-complete, or even feature-laden, and any bugs were usually minor annoyances rather than fatal flaws. But the quality control is a crapshoot, so a good chunk of them tend to be DOA. Of the ones that work fine at the start, many will fail in the following weeks, months, and years at much higher rates than you'd expect.