Review on 🔌 Enhanced Connectivity: DriverGenius USB 3.1 Gen 1 Type A to 2.5G/1G Gigabit RJ45 LAN Ethernet Network Adapter - Ideal for Desktop PC and Laptop by Adan Hudson

Although this one can reach 2.5GbE, you need to download the latest driver from Realtek, otherwise the performance maybe only GbE or worse, you will get Win BSOD with Win 10 Default Driver . This device has a built-in driver, but to install it you need to connect it to a PC or laptop, but WITHOUT connecting an Ethernet cable to the network. When you do this, it uses the default Win 10 driver. . You'd be better off downloading the driver directly from Realtek as I've found that the driver that comes with it still can't reach full speed and there is no driver on the seller's website at the time of writing this article. Sir, poor performance is not the seller's or manufacturer's fault. but Realtek releases the chipset before fully testing the drivers for bugs and performance. In addition to this device, I have another USB to Ethernet adapter, a PCIE adapter, a QNAP NAS, they all use Realtek 2.5GbE solution and all adapters require new drivers from Realtek. To check the speed I use the installed Open Speed server. on my main PC with a PCIE card and a new HP Ryzen 7 4700u based laptop. I then use the Open Speedtest client to match the bidirectional speed between them and another laptop with a 3rd party 2.5GbE USB adapter. As mentioned, both USB adapters worked very poorly without new drivers. The speed is worse than another laptop's built-in Ethernet port. After updating the driver, this adapter can reach more or less 2.5GbE speed, which is a bit better than other USB adapters. one. Not only is it consistently slightly faster, but more importantly, it has status LEDs, green for 2.5GbE and orange for normal GbE. The other adapter has no LED at all and you can't just look at it to see if the connection is OK, let alone the right speed. In fact, unless you're transferring from NVME to NVME on another PC, you're unlikely to get 2.5GbE on a normal file transfer, as the read/write speeds of most hard drives plus Windows overhead are much slower. 2.5GbE is a good choice with appropriate status LEDs.