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Your Wi-Fi might be fast, but if you hook up directly through the Ethernet port, your network performance will increase significantly, even double in speed! Plus, most offices require Ethernet connectivity for security. But what if your notebook or laptop doesn't have Ethernet? Enter the terrific DriverGenius Dual Port Ethernet Adapter (model CU200). Tech expert Dave Taylor checks it out and shows off a jaw-dropping demo too.
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You can gain access to super fast internet with this simple adapter. Let's check it out
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Dave Taylor here and I want to talk about internet connectivity Because if you are like me you probably spend a lot of time on Wi-Fi networks now
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Wi-Fi could be pretty fast if you have a good connection and good Wi-Fi equipment
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But there's always a performance penalty versus a hardwired connection. What's a hardwired connection? It's Ethernet
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That's what this is and you might have encountered this for example in a hotel room or in your office a lot of
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Offices and facilities like to use these because there's no way for someone to tap into the network, right
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If you're a Wi-Fi network, I can sit in the parking lot and potentially actually connect that would be bad
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So this not only gives you better security but Ethernet gives you
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Significantly faster performance problem is is that most computers don't include Ethernet anymore enter this
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This is the drive genius dual port Ethernet adapter and it's a simple but super effective solution
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It has two Ethernet connections on the end so you can connect it to different networks simultaneously
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It's USB a or USB 3 on the end that rectangle and it even has another one of those ports in it
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So you don't actually lose that connection So what I thought would be fun to do would be to actually run the speed test on my PC
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With Wi-Fi and I have really good Wi-Fi and then plug in my Ethernet and run that same test again now
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Let me tell you this is compatible with Mac PC Linux probably Chromebooks really anything you can imagine and it's not just
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Laptops, this could be great for your desktop if you are used to having an Ethernet connection and suddenly it's not working, right
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This thing supports gigabyte Ethernet, which means 10 base T 100 base T and a thousand base T all of that
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Ready to go out of this simple little device that comes in this rather handsome looking package
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But I know you're not interested in this you're interested in what this can do
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So, let me bring the camera around over my shoulder so you can see the screen and you'll see what I'm talking about with this performance
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Alright, let's start with a speed test for Wi-Fi and as you can see on the right the Wi-Fi is how I'm connected to the Internet and as I said
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I have pretty decent Wi-Fi connectivity and pretty decent performance as you'll see
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With this speed test app that I just grabbed out of the Microsoft Store
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and Then what I'll do is I'll turn off Wi-Fi I will plug in the Ethernet and then I will actually run the speed test again using that Ethernet connection
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so here you can see my downloads about 300 megabytes a second and
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Upload looks like it's at about 40 megabytes a second. Alright, that's good numbers
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Now, let me turn off Wi-Fi Which now my computer will say hey, you're not on the Internet. So now I'm gonna use this driver genius device
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plug in my Ethernet plug this into the computer and After a moment or two you'll see over here that it will recognize the Ethernet
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It will recognize the connection and now I'm connected to the Internet again
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But this time when I run the speed test we're gonna see different numbers
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If it runs, that's it, there we go And you can see already it is
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significantly faster like Multiples faster that is a really impressive download speed and it looks like we're averaging about
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940 megabits per second. That's Pretty close to a gig that is a really sweet speed
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But interestingly the upload speed seems to be all over the place. So here it's at about 30 megs
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But I think that last time I ran the test I got about 45 meg. So
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For some reason that upload test number can be different. In fact, let's run it again and see what we get. So
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Download again should be gloriously fast and I just love that the meter just automatically pegs at the maximum
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possible speed that's kind of what you want to see and Then we'll see it doesn't really make sense that the upload speed would be slower than it is via Wi-Fi
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So, let's see this time what happens. So there we go So we're getting about the same speed and this is pretty typical of these speed tests that you need to run them a half dozen
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Times to get a good average number. Anyway, there you go. There's our speed test of Ethernet versus Wi-Fi
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Let me jump back on camera. So that's it. I mean, it's not a super complicated device
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It just serves its purpose and serves it in a lightning-fast way
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So as you saw the speed test was pretty darn sweet So let me just unplug this and let's just talk about it just a tiny bit more
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So, let me give you the dimensions it is 3 inches by 2.4 inches by about 3 quarters of an inch thick and
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The little cable on the end of it is about six six and a half inches long. So there are your dimensions
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It is was so light that you're pretty convinced that there's actually nothing in there. But obviously there is something because it works
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So what we need to talk about is we need to talk about the price But before we get to the price
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I'm gonna ask if you could subscribe to my channel click or a tap on that subscribe button and we're connected great
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Alright, this is the driver genius dual port Ethernet adapter and it's
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$42.99 but when I looked it was discounted down to $31.38 at amazon.com
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If you have need to use Ethernet, this is a great tool to have in your toolbox
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So I say check it out. That's all I got. I'm going back to my super fast downloads
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Which means I'll catch you in my next video
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