Macbook Air M2 Ethernet

Are you connecting the adapters to one of the USB-C ports on the mac, or to a port on the display or some dock?

What do you see in System Settings-Network? Post a screenshot.

What do you see under USB in System Information? ( hold down the Option key and select System Information from the Apple menu, then click USB)

Dogfish61 wrote:

Strangely Apple don't supply an own brand adaptor - in fact they seem to have very few Thunderbolt / USB-C adaptors for anything.

They so. See here: Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter - Apple

Apple just don't know how to do a proper search interface.

Does it functionally not work? There is a USB-C to Thunderbolt 2 adapter.

I wouldn't waste money on that, though as there are plenty of USB-C to Ethernet sold by other companies.

It seems like it is an ongoing issue that Apple won't / don't want to acknowledge.

Or they want to get out of the business of making and selling dongles.

Dogfish61 wrote:

That's the old Thunderbolt2/ Ethernet adaptor. I need Thunderbolt3 / USB-C to ethernet that is compatible with M2 chipset. It seems like it is an ongoing issue that Apple won't / don't want to acknowledge.

Really? Sorry about that. There is no indicator that says Thunderbolt 2. But it does say that it works with OS version 10.7.4. They would only say that if it was really ancient.

Do you really need Ethernet? I've found that I can't really beat modern WiFi speeds, even with 10gig ethernet. I suppose maybe the Linux computer with the 10gig ethernet adapter really is talking to the modem that fast, but for all practical purposes, there is no way to actually use that speed.

I guess it depends on where one works, relative to the wifi access point.

I agree that in many cases, there is little or no advantage to using Ethernet nowadays, vs. Wifi.

At work, I get a great Wifi signal, and the Ethernet cabling is a decade and a half old, supporting only 100Mb Ethernet, so Wifi is actually faster, most times.

At home, I work in the basement, two storeys down from where the router is. Twenty-something years ago, before Wifi was widespread (and even before the first Apple "flying saucer" Airport routers - who remembers those?) I ran a cable from the first floor down to the basement. I enjoy Gb Ethernet to this day :-)

I got fibre internet recently. I had a plan to upload data to AWS using the crazy 1 Mbps upload speed. But even with a 10 gig adapter in the Linux box, I never got close to that. Plus, I figured out how to generate the data on AWS for only about $10 a pop, so no point in bothering with uploads anymore. The nice thing about AWS is that when you do have a justifiable need for 2 TB SSD, 128 cores, and 512 GB RAM, you can get it for $7/hour.

But now my intro period is up and bell wants more money for those TV channels I never watch. I went down to 500 Mbps internet speed for no real difference in practical speed. Apparently bell now has 8 Mbps fibre available, but not in my area yet. I'm limited to 3. Not that Canadian internet could support those speeds anyway.