Many of our customers ask if we can design board with two or three Gigabit Ethernet interfaces. The Allwinner chips we use for OLinuXino are general purpose not communication chips so they usually have single Ethernet. The Sitara SOC we use AM335X advertise to have more than one Ethernet interface but it’s marketing as these are virtual interface i.e. share transfer speed.
USB-Gigabit allow you to add 10/100/1000Mbit interface to any of your computers which has USB host. It supports USB 1.1, USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 interfaces and speed depend on your USB port speed.
Our tests with A20 OLinuXino boards with USB 2.0 host interface show 319Mbit of Upload and 295Mbit of Download speed i.e. x3 times more than our other USB-Ethernet-AX88772B interface.
Oct 24, 2019 @ 14:20:11
Thanks you.
Both for providing an OSHW Gigabit adapter, and for pointing explicitly at the confusing marketing speak regarding alternative (non-)options.
Oct 24, 2019 @ 16:15:10
Which chipset is used here, to select the right drivers for macOS or iOS and our Raspberry PI. Or can you point me to the drivers.
Oct 24, 2019 @ 23:07:12
The schematic on Github says it is RTL8153VCCG.
BTW, Olimex, you forgot to add alink to the repo in the product page:
https://github.com/OLIMEX/USB-GIGABIT
Oct 25, 2019 @ 07:44:45
Thanks for your note! I’m pretty sure I did, but obviously forgot to save page changes 🙂 now fixed
Oct 29, 2019 @ 16:02:39
+1 for dual port Olinuxino with proper case 🙂
Why not make something like this:
https://www.friendlyarm.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=248
So we don’t have to wear additional USB gadget with the Olinuxino board. Isn’t it possible to embed this device on the board? That would make it a good industrial VPN router.