Plugable2.5G USB-C and USB to Ethernet Adapter – Dual-Connector 2-in-1 USB-C to RJ45 2.5Gbps LAN, Compatible with Thunderbolt 5 & 4, USB4, USB 3.0, Windows, Mac, ChromeOS, iPhone 15 & 16

Wow, what a difference these adapters and a 2.5 Gb switch make. Once I downloaded the drivers from the Plugable site and connected everything, my network is much faster. I'm getting 250 Mb in transferring files between my two computers. Internet speeds with AT&T fiber are 2.4 Gb up and down. As long as you are comfortable downloading and extracting a zip file, then running the installation executable, you will have no problems getting things up and running. The adapters get a little warm, but nothing that gives me concern. Money well spent.

Connected this to my Raspberry Pi 5 and was able to push 2.5gb through it without any additional drivers.

The "Plugable USB C to Ethernet Adapter, 2-in-1 Adapter Compatible with Thunderbolt 3" works well. No drivers needed for Windows 11. It gave me a big boost in speed. I didn't measure the speed, but it was several times faster than the 1gb ethernet. I'm planning to buy another in the near future.

This USBC Ethernet adapter works fine. I connect to my switch at 2.5 Gig. Good stable connection.

Using the 2.5 Gbe adapter between my Lenovo Yogo C930 laptop and my QNAP NAS.Immediately after installation I was getting near 2.5G read speeds from the NAS and only 1G write speeds to the NAS. Went into the adapter's driver Advanced settings to make sure Jumbo Frames were on at 9K setting, but that was not available. My next troubleshooting steps were to check my hardware connections (wiring between router, switches, and NAS). Made a few changes and both R/W speeds drop to 1G. After that I went back to my original hardware setup, but R/W speeds were stuck at 1G.So I decided to update the 2016 driver that was pre-installed on the 2.5 Gbe adapter, but Windows stated the "Best driver was installed". So I went to the Pluggable's website and found the recommended 2021 driver. Downloaded that driver which allowed me access to change the Jumbo Frames setting from "Disabled" to "9014 Bytes" and that worked.I now get 2.3G write speeds and 2.5G read speeds between my Yoga C930 laptop and my NAS!I would have scored this a 5 star rating, but it was not plug and play. Users that are not a little tech savvy could have issues out of the box and just return the adapter.My setup is as follows:- QNAP TS-253 NAS which has (2) 2.5Gbe ports- QNAP QM2-2P10G1TA PCIe Expansion Card with 2 x PCIe 2280 M.2 SSD Slots- (2) Samsung 870 EVO 500 GB NVME SSD drives installed in the QM2 Expansion card (RAID 1, Used for caching)- (1) QNAP 6-Port 10GbE & 2.5GbE (QSW-2104-2S-US) Unmanaged Network Switch- Asus AX89X Router with (1) SFP+ 10G port, (1) 10G Ethernet portPlease note my setup if for future expansion to 10G networking, but for now I'm only looking for use the 2.5G performance.

I upgraded to 1.2 Gig down and 35 Meg up from Comcast/Xfinity. I then bought an Arris S33 modem. (Note, never plug anything into the second Ethernet port on the S33 if you are a residential customer. When the modem reboots the one IP address Comcast will give you may not be given to the 2.5 Gig port.) I then realized that I had nothing in the house that could do faster than 1 Gig Ethernet. (My WiFi is eero 6+, which only can do 1 Gig, and the Windows laptops we have only have a 1 Gig Ethernet ports, and the Chromebook has no Ethernet port.)I have an Acer Chromebook 317 with a Pentium Silver N6000 @ 1.10 GHz with 8 GB of memory. I've wanted an Ethernet adapter for it before, but always worked around the problem by borrowing another laptop. I plugged in the USB-E2500 and saw a message I've never seen before "Update firmware on Unifying Receiver". I clicked OK and saw a message that the update failed, but asking if I wanted to try again. I went to try again and found that my mouse didn't work. But my trackpad (which I have off when Chrome OS is running) was working. Apparently I was running at a lower more basic level of the laptop. Using the trackpad I ran the update again, and this time it said the update worked!So I took the laptop to the S33, unplugged my eero and plugged in the USBC-E2500. Two minutes later it was still "connecting" when I viewed Ethernet in my Chrome OS settings. I cycled power on the S33 and when its light went blue the Chromebook was connected. I then tested the speed.On speedtest.net I got 1269.28 down and 41.67 up.On xfinity.speedtest.com I got 1367.5 down and 39.5 up.Comcast /Xfinity sold the service as 1200 down and 35 up.Life is good!