Review on LandingZone Docking Station: Enhanced 🔌 Connectivity for 15-inch MacBook Pro (2016-2019) by Dominic Kimbro

Pros: - it's a dock. Handles all individual connections. Cons: 3 USB-C ports on the back don't go through. So if you connect 2 monitors, e.g. B. Via DisplayPort to USB-C cables, one of them has a pass-through connector on the right side of the dock, and the other needs to be plugged into the single USB-C slot left behind. open on macbook. So every time you disconnect/reconnect the USB-C cable. This defeats the purpose of the dock, but I was willing to live with it until the next point. Ethernet connection. The first time I undocked my Mac and left the house, I got home to find my internet was down. After a few hours of troubleshooting I finally tracked it down to the dock. I can only assume that he was spamming somehow and turning off my router. After unplugging the dock, my router was up and running again and my internet was back. I was ready to work on it but it seems that this ethernet port is just junk. I work from home via VPN and when connected to a wireless network the VPN is fine and easy to use. When I connect through the Ethernet port, the VPN doesn't work. Another day wasted trying to find out. As mentioned earlier, docking your Macbook is not easy. You have to shake it and toss it up and down to insert the USB-C slots into the ports. I haven't had any problems with USB 2.0 connections yet, but I've read that others have (I've only had this a month and am sending it back).