TRENDnet USB to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter TU2-ETG

by TRENDnet

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.8 x 1.5 inches ; 6.4 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000NIX7A4
• Item model number: TU2-ETG
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 7, 2004

Product Description

1 x RJ-45 10/100/1000Base-T - 10Mbps, 100Mbps, 1Gbps - UTP

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Handy Dandy Tool, September 13, 2007

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Motionmaniac - See all my reviews

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This review is from: TRENDnet USB to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter TU2-ETG (Personal Computers)

It's a great dongle to keep around when you need an ethernet connection. It's too bad you still have to keep the driver disk around as the drivers are not built into Windows.

Operation couldn't be simpler and also works with Vista.

It wouldn't bridge in VMWare, but you can still use it with Virtual Server.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Gigabit USB ethernet adapter, June 14, 2011

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W. A. Lardin "uwillie" (GA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: TRENDnet USB to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter TU2-ETG (Personal Computers)

Item was purchased to use with new MacBook Air, so gigabit was key in its selection. It arrived intact and well packed, and when connected to the MacBook, the computer sensed it, but it would not ever work. I called Trenenet tech service, and they seemed to know nothing. After about forty minutes' discussion with a number of agents, the gist was that the item is NOT Mac compatible, even though it says on its label that it is. I sent the thing back and bought the Apple item for that purpose.

1.0 out of 5 stars Awful!, January 24, 2012

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RJR (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: TRENDnet USB to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter TU2-ETG (Personal Computers)

I bought two of these, one for my Macbook Air, one for my wife's Acer Aspire S3, hoping to speed up backups at home and to use on a business trip in a hotel that didn't have wifi.

On the S3 (running Windows 7) it was a disaster: The driver blue-screened constantly, and it was anything but speedy. We made sure we had the latest driver from the manufacturer's website.

On the Macbook, it didn't work. OS X Lion recognized the dongle as a USB network device, but couldn't negotiate a network address, and when I hard-coded that, it dropped packets like crazy and was basically useless.

So, in short, I wouldn't bother.