Ebaco 3 Ports USB 3.0 Hub with RJ45 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter Converter LAN Connecter for PC

Review of - Ebaco 3 Ports USB 3.0 Hub with RJ45 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter Converter LAN ConnecterMost of the time this adapter is working satisfactorily for me.Looking around at these devices, it seems actually difficult to find one that has all positive reviews, regardless of price.intermittent problems:- Sometimes when my Windows 10 laptop wakes from sleep mode, the adapter does not wake with it. The results of failure to wake are that ethernet disappears and any disks connected have been disconnected. Sometimes Windows and the adapter performs a reset automatically and ethernet restores and the disks reconnect themselves. At other times, any connected disks must be disconnected, the adapter unplugged and reconnected after which everything is restored.- Sometimes the device gets hot if multiple USB NAND drivers are connected to this device. The resultant symptom is that the USB nand drives can become unresponsive.- One I noticed that the device wasn't connected at 1Gbps speeds. I discovered advanced settings in control panel to tell the device to always connect at 1Gbps. Click on the device in - Network Connections. Click on the button at the upper right called - Configure. Click on the advanced tab. half way down the list is a - Speed & Duplex - option. Select the 1.0 Gbps Full Duplex option. This enables the device to always connect at full speed.- Occasionally the adapter gets overheated. When the adapter overheats, it disconnects any connected drives.Observations - Conclusions:- Overall this was a simple basic choice among the dozens of similar devices advertised on amazon.- When using the USB 3.0 connectors, inserted devices do not sit completely flush with the device housing.- Notwithstanding the potential problems listed in the section above, this device is mostly working okay for me.- I have no way of knowing if the device I got is a knockoff or an actual ebaco brand adapter.- It is next to impossible to choose among the many options for similar devices that are listed on amazon.

This was great until it failed less than 5 months from purchase. My Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse first failed, then the ethernet. The ethernet drivers then started disappearing. I'd restore it and the next day it would be gone. I found it strange that the two wireless devices failed the same day. So, I had a competitor hub device on my Win 8 computer that I ported the Logitec universal controllers on, and they worked. So, I knew it was a problem with this hub (I had already run driver updates and antivirus sweeps). Then I connected the ethernet cable and walla, it worked.I've have a similarly configured device by HooToo that no longer made it -- the cord had frayed at the juncture with the box, which is why I purchased the Ebaco -- the HooToo lasted several years, was rock solid, meta, a beautiful matte silver, and was my go to connector for home and travel. I'm disappointed the Ebaco lasted a fraction of the time. Now I'm back looking for another hub...but not a Ebaco...

Was excited to get this product, since my laptop doesn't have an RJ45 connection. The first time I used it, the laptop said I had an unrecognized USB device. I REALLY needed this to work, and thought 'This has great reviews and I have a great laptop, what gives?'. So I deleted the device out of Device Manager and tried again. It recognized it right away and worked great....except.... It seems I have to plug it in and unplug it a couple of times for it to recognize. And the end where I plug in the RJ45 won't hold the clip. It just pulls out easily, not locking in place. That is bothersome. So if I plug it in a couple of times, and don't move, it works great. But I work in data closets and that isn't always easy. So be careful and picky on this one.

I had problems with the network adapter causing blue screens and continually resetting when plugging it in to my netbook's USB 3.0 port, even when not using any of the USB ports on the hub. I did not have these issues when plugging it into a USB 2.0 port, but I still experienced the network stack freezing during configuration and while under load, and the whole point of this adapter was to expand my available USB 3.0 ports, so that just isn't good enough.To troubleshoot the resetting, I tried alternate USB 3.0 drivers for my PC, which didn't help. I also tried disabling any relevant Device Manager->Power Management options associated with the USB 3.0 port and the hub, but this also didn't help.While Googling for fixes, I discovered a suggestion to disable USB selective suspend in Power Options, and I think this may have helped, but only as long as I didn't reboot the computer or hibernate it with the adapter plugged in. If I did, on resume, the adapter would, again, reset three or four times and then Windows would disable the USB 3.0 port completely.One other thing that I noticed was that when the network adapter was resetting itself over and over while the Ethernet port was connected to a *Fast Ethernet* router, the driver it used would eventually switch to Realtek FE from Realtek GbE. This happened in concert with the multiple resets, so maybe there's also some bugginess involved with plugging it into a Fast Ethernet router?After plugging it into a GbE switch, along with disabling the USB selective suspend setting as per above, I haven't experienced further resets or blue screens, but, like I said, that is only as long as I don't hibernate or restart. Anyway, I'm going to have to find a more reliable adapter, as this one simply doesn't cut it.