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The AX88179 chipsed USB 3.0 to Gigabit is an easy way to gain wired gigabit network speeds over USB 3.0 for faster HD video streaming, gaming, web browsing, network storage and more.
It's also the perfect travel companion for any laptop or tablet due to it's small size and USB bus powered design.
Common uses include adding wired gigabit network support to Macbooks, UltraBooks, or notebooks with no Ethernet connection, or replacing or upgrading network adapters in desktop computers.
USB network adapters can improve speeds up to 1000Mbps. Also useful for adding additional network interfaces, and transferring files peer-to-peer over Ethernet.
Compatible with Nintendo Switch when using the dock or in handheld mode with compliant USB-C to A solution.

Integrates on-chip USB 3.0 PHY and controller compliant to USB Spec 3.0, 2.0 and 1.1
Supports IEEE 802.3az (Energy Efficient Ethernet)
IEEE 802.3, 802.3u and 802.3ab compatible
Integrates 10/100/1000Mbps Gigabit Ethernet MAC/PHY
Supports parallel detection and automatic polarity correction
Supports crossover detection and auto- correction
Supports IPv4/IPv6 packet Checksum Offload Engine (COE) to reduce CPU loading, including IPv4 IP/TCP/UDP/ICMP/IGMP & IPv6 TCP/UDP/ICMPv6 checksum check & generation
Supports full duplex operation with IEEE 802.3x flow control and half duplex operation with back-pressure flow control
Supports IEEE 802.1P Layer 2 Priority Encoding and Decoding
Supports IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tagging and 2 VLAN ID filtering;
Support Wake-on-LAN Function

Compatible with Microsoft Windows 10 through XP,Linux, Mac OS,Chrome OS,Nintendo Switch
Not compatible with ARM-based Windows RT & Windows Mobile systems (Microsoft Surface, Asus ASUS VivoTab RT, Nokia Lumia).

Note:
Windows - Automatic driver installation via Windows Update on Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7 and XP
Linux - Functionality built into Linux kernel from 3.9 onward (compile required for 2.6 - 3.8)
Mac OS - macOS driver download available for 10.6 - 10.13.x and newer (system restart required)