{"id":8439,"date":"2014-02-12T15:38:19","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T20:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=8439"},"modified":"2014-02-12T15:38:19","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T20:38:19","slug":"anatomy-of-a-cheap-usb-to-ethernet-adapter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/12\/anatomy-of-a-cheap-usb-to-ethernet-adapter\/","title":{"rendered":"Anatomy of a Cheap USB to Ethernet Adapter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/projectgus.com\/2013\/03\/anatomy-of-a-cheap-usb-ethernet-adapter\/\">Angus Gratton<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/projectgus.com\/2013\/03\/anatomy-of-a-cheap-usb-ethernet-adapter\/\"><p>One of them is sold on ebay for $3.85 AU ($3.99 US), including postage to Australia. The other is sold at Apple Stores for $29.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The Apple adapter also has many more small components &#8211; two inductors (the cheap adapter has none), over twenty five capacitors (the cheap adapter has only nineteen), more resistors. For the cheap adapter design, every fraction of a cent saved is important!<\/p>\n<p>One thing that surprised me is that the cheap adapter has a functioning blue activity LED, that glows through the enclosure. The Apple adapter actually has a space on the PCB for this, but no LED in place (Apple&rsquo;s designers presumably nixed it for aesthetic reasons.) I&rsquo;m surprised the manufacturer paid the few cents to add this feature.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angus Gratton: One of them is sold on ebay for $3.85 AU ($3.99 US), including postage to Australia. The other is sold at Apple Stores for $29. [&#8230;] The Apple adapter also has many more small components &#8211; two inductors (the cheap adapter has none), over twenty five capacitors (the cheap adapter has only nineteen), [&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":[38,762,452,30,175],"class_list":["post-8439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-ethernet","tag-hardware","tag-mac","tag-usb"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8439","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=8439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}