Review on 💨 Enhance Your Network Speed: StarTech Com USB Gigabit Network Adapter by Tim Beckett

My almost 10 year old Lenovo ThinkPad W700's built in ethernet adapter burned out in a lightning strike a few years ago. Luckily, the Wi-Fi adapter wasn't damaged, so I still had internet and network access, but at Wi-Fi speeds. This wasn't a problem until about 18 months ago, when the W700 was replaced by the Lenovo ThinkPad P71, pushing the Lenovo W700 to the top. Our house has a metal roof and WiFi throughput in this part of our house is significantly reduced. Not a big deal using the internet, but moving large files, creating backups or synchronizing files between two systems over our local network has become a problem. slow. So much so that I started using the old "sneaker grid" approach and started moving files and data back and forth using flash drives. My W700 is pre-USB 3.0 and only has native USB 2.0 ports. USB 2.0 sticks are certainly faster than weak WLAN, but they are still relatively slow and always cumbersome. The first thing I bought was a StarTech USB 3.0 ExpressCard. USB 3.0 ExpressCard works great. With a USB 3.0 port, I can use USB 3.0 flash drives. The USB 3.0 connectivity at both ends of the LAN made moving large amounts of data faster, but I still had to physically move the flash drives back and forth between the two Lenovo systems and up and down the stairs. I tried a USB 2.0 Ethernet adapter but the speed was about the same as Wi-Fi. I then tried a StarTech USB 3.0 Ethernet Adapter connected to a StarTech USB 3.0 ExpressCard. I had no idea if this would work and crossed my fingers as I restarted Windows 10. And it worked and I would like to add that it is very good. Now I can use large blocks of data again, e.g. B. 200 or 300 15-18MB photo files between my two Lenovo laptops in a minute or less. And one of my backup strategies - syncing files between the two systems - is much faster now.