Questions & Answers for Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter

Yes. OSX 10.7.2 up.

• Answered by Max W from Pacific Palicades
• 12 18, 13
• Flag as inappropriate Answer (Does it work with a 13" macbook air brought in 2012 version OS X 10.8.4?)

If you own a Macintosh Computer with a Thunderbolt port, then I recommend the Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet adapter because it has Gigabit speeds and works on a standard network.

• Answered by Joshua G from Ft Lauderdale
• 11 3, 12
• Flag as inappropriate Answer (What's the difference between Thunderbolt to gigabit ethernet and USB to Ethernet?)

The previous "yes" answer is correct, it does indeed work under Wndows 7 Bootcamp, but the answer is a bit light on detail for a couple of the steps. Here's a fuller explanation:

1) download the driver per the instructions in the previous answer
2) unzip the drivers to a temporary folder on your hard drive
3) connect the adaptor to the thunderbolt port
4) reboot Windows

Windows should automatically detect the adaptor now and install it. You may need to point the installer at the location where you unzipped the drivers.

If Windows doesn't automatically install the device...

1) go to Start > Control Panel > Hardware & Sound and open Device Manager
2) click the name of your computer at the top of the device tree
3) click Action at the top of the window and choose Add Legacy Hardware
4) Click Next
5) Select "Install hardware that I manually select..."
6) Choose Network Adaptors
7) Choose "Have Disk"
8) Browse to the location of the drivers you unzipped earlier.
9) Click the .inf file
10) Select Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet from the list of drivers available
11) OK and install

You may need to reboot again with the adaptor plugged into the Thunderbolt port to finish the job,

• Answered by Benjamin C from London
• 07 10, 12
• Flag as inappropriate Answer (Will Windows 7 (bootcamp) recognize a thunderbolt ethernet adapter?)

Yes it will but the iMac already has a gigabit Ethernet port built in so unless you need two, don't worry.

• Answered by Jon C
• 12 9, 15
• Flag as inappropriate Answer (will this work for the new 27-inch iMac with Retina 5K display?)

This adapter is not necessary to connect your iMac to your Time Capsule for internet access and for your Time Machine backups. Time Capsule and iMac can be connected via Wifi. In almost all cases, though, using this adapter with a decent ethernet cable (I recommend at least a Cat 5e ethernet cable) connected hard-wired to your Time Capsule will not only improve your internet speed on your iMac, but also your Time Machine backup speed. The actual improvement in speed of these things will depend on your current internet speed and distance between the iMac and Time Capsule along with other possible interferences. In most cases, though, I would say the average user would notice a slight increase in performance, and the power user to notice a significant performance increase.

If you deal with backup up many large files and are a heavy-bandwidth user, I woul definitely recommend using this adapter with either a Cat 5e or Cat 6 cable.

• Answered by Jeffrey Y from Westmont
• 06 14, 12
• Flag as inappropriate Answer (Can I use this cable to hook up a Time Capsule to my iMac?)

You can. Go to system preferences > sharing > network sharing and share your connection over ethernet to Wifi. Set a password, and let it run. Any device should be able to connect to that wifi network, and your computer's network will still function.

• Answered by Ryan F from Larkspur
• 02 9, 17
• Flag as inappropriate Answer (Can I use a thunderbolt to ethernet adaptor to share my hotel wifi connection to a router so all my devices can access the hotel wifi?)

It should support "Wake for Ethernet network access" as long as it was configured and active before you put the computer to sleep.

"Wake for Ethernet network access" only works if the computer is asleep which is actually a super low power mode in which the CPU can watch for incoming network activity.

If you shutdown the computer, there is no way incoming network traffic will wake it. (the CPU is totally off; no network monitoring possible)

• Answered by Chris S from San Jose
• 06 26, 12
• Flag as inappropriate Answer (Does the new Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet adapter support Wake-on-LAN?)

Once Apple updates and re-releases the Thunderbolt driver for the gigabit adapter, it will be a supported ethernet interface on the Mac and will support passing that through to Parallels and VMs hosted there.

• Answered by Jay D from San Marcos
• 06 17, 12
• Flag as inappropriate Answer (Will it work with parallels windows virtual machine ?)

Well you would plug it into the thunderbolt port on the side of your laptop, from there you would just (like a regular laptop) plug the ethernet cable in and your mac should automatically detect and connect to the ethernet! :)

• Answered by Baruch C
• 11 8, 16
• Flag as inappropriate Answer (can and if so how will this work with the 2015 macbook?)

USB-C to Ethernet. There's one available in the Apple Store made by Belkin.

• Answered by Carlos N
• 12 6, 16
• Flag as inappropriate Answer (what Ethernet adapter do I need for 2016 MacBook pro)