Avoid these like the plague
I was given two of them, new in the box, for my own uses. I use them to connect my upstairs computer to our downstairs network; it removes the hassle of having to run a wire upstairs or use wifi, which never worked well. There are a pair of adapters, they connect to each other. I'm told you can also expand the network and add as many adapters as you like but I haven't tried it.
They worked well themselves... until 3 months after owning one, it just stopped. Died. Nothing. No power indicator, not recognised as an ethernet adapter, etc.
Open it up and lo and behold a bad cap. Order replacement cap, replaced it. Works great.
Then 2 months later (so 5 months total), the other one died... with the same symptoms and the same cap. Replaced that one too, but I used some 1500u 6.3V motherboard caps, instead of the 1000u 10V cap I replace the 1000u 6.3V original with, because I was in a rush. But it didn't fit, so I mounted it horizontally
. The original cap is a cheap Jackcon capacitor in both units.
Both are in good working order now.
But what pisses me off is that these adapters died so quickly. Obviously I knew how to fix them but it is just plain poor design. And not everyone knows how to fix things. A few more items saved from landfill, but it's a losing battle.
I was given two of them, new in the box, for my own uses. I use them to connect my upstairs computer to our downstairs network; it removes the hassle of having to run a wire upstairs or use wifi, which never worked well. There are a pair of adapters, they connect to each other. I'm told you can also expand the network and add as many adapters as you like but I haven't tried it.
They worked well themselves... until 3 months after owning one, it just stopped. Died. Nothing. No power indicator, not recognised as an ethernet adapter, etc.
Open it up and lo and behold a bad cap. Order replacement cap, replaced it. Works great.
Then 2 months later (so 5 months total), the other one died... with the same symptoms and the same cap. Replaced that one too, but I used some 1500u 6.3V motherboard caps, instead of the 1000u 10V cap I replace the 1000u 6.3V original with, because I was in a rush. But it didn't fit, so I mounted it horizontally
. The original cap is a cheap Jackcon capacitor in both units.Both are in good working order now.
But what pisses me off is that these adapters died so quickly. Obviously I knew how to fix them but it is just plain poor design. And not everyone knows how to fix things. A few more items saved from landfill, but it's a losing battle.
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(or wait until someday I get a machine with a SAS backplane...)
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