{"id":16755,"date":"2016-12-28T15:07:55","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T20:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=16755"},"modified":"2017-02-09T15:39:08","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T20:39:08","slug":"macbook-pro-ethernet-adapter-benchmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/28\/macbook-pro-ethernet-adapter-benchmark\/","title":{"rendered":"MacBook Pro Ethernet Adapter Benchmark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tapbot_paul\/status\/814150859084926980\">Paul Haddad<\/a> notes that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/shop\/product\/MD463LL\/A\/thunderbolt-to-gigabit-ethernet-adapter\">Apple&rsquo;s Thunderbolt to Ethernet adapter<\/a> is slightly faster than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/shop\/product\/HJKF2ZM\/A\/belkin-usb-c-to-gigabit-ethernet-adapter\">Belkin&rsquo;s USB-C to Ethernet adapter<\/a> and uses much less CPU. Unfortunately, the former must be chained with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/shop\/product\/MMEL2AM\/A\/thunderbolt-3-usb-c-to-thunderbolt-2-adapter\">Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 2 adapter<\/a>. I wonder how the various docking stations compare.<\/p>\n\n<p>Update (2017-02-09): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/liyanage\/status\/829402159305285632\">Marc Liyanage<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/liyanage\/status\/829402159305285632\"><p>Unscientific quick test of 4 USB-C-to-Ethernet adapters. Top is connected to MacBook Pro directly, bottom though LG 5K, all in Mbps.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Haddad notes that Apple&rsquo;s Thunderbolt to Ethernet adapter is slightly faster than Belkin&rsquo;s USB-C to Ethernet adapter and uses much less CPU. Unfortunately, the former must be chained with the Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 2 adapter. I wonder how the various docking stations compare. Update (2017-02-09): Marc Liyanage: Unscientific quick test of 4 USB-C-to-Ethernet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[762,30,100,476,201,1154],"class_list":["post-16755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ethernet","tag-mac","tag-macbookpro","tag-networking","tag-thunderbolt","tag-usb-c"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16755"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17146,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16755\/revisions\/17146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}