New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper

Re:New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper by mh- on Saturday April 25, 2026 @11:45PM (#47907143)

Wow, thanks for sharing this. Like the parent commenter, I have an increasing number of cheap devices like this. I wonder if anyone sells an "enclosed" version of this product. This won't survive 5 minutes in my house, haha.

A quick google I found one but they're $17 each (!) and it's from a site I've never heard of and can't vouch for, so not bothering to link it here.

I'm really surprised there aren't a number of these all over Amazon. Or if there are, they're using different keywords to describe them, so I can't find them.

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Re:New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper by anamexis on Sunday April 26, 2026 @11:00AM (#47910888)

Adafruit sells enclosures for them, too.

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Re:New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper by ssl-3 on Sunday April 26, 2026 @06:41PM (#47915528)

On AliExpress I found some that were already packaged into neat little professional-looking adapter-sized widgets for about $2.50 each.

I'd link them here, but I have a US perspective on things and it wasn't clear to me how this listing would be delivered. And delivery method is important to me, here.

If with AliExpress Choice shipping, then that'd be fine: They'd show up on a doorstep in Anytown, USA for a few dollars each.

But if they'd be delivered using Approximately Any Other Method, then: Surprise! Your widget valued at less than $2.50 now costs you $80 to receive!

I don't want to encourage anyone to be surprised like that.

(I have no doubt that an enterprising person could negotiate a very good price on 1,000 of these widgets and sell them on Amazon if they were motivated to do so.)

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