Can someone recommend quality USB(-C) ethernet adapters brand? I'm building an embedded system in a professional context and need to connect some of our own custom in-house built embedded devices (usb-c only, no ethernet) to LAN. Right now, when some device goes offline, I don't know wether it's our product or the cheapish usb-ethernet-adapter which is at fault. Would like to have something 100% reliable.
Have tried both Lenovo and Linksys (USB-A, RTL) - in both cases they would have issues and disappear after hours or days after startup. I can not tell you for certain that it's purely an issue with the USB Ethernet adapters and not something else in the stack (Armbian Bullseye).
Since it's built in-house, why are you relying on retrofitted USB dongles if reliable Ethernet connectivity is important? Unfeasible to make a revision with a port?
Anyway, if I were you I would probably just go ahead and buy one each of the top handful of contenders and try them out myself - they're not expensive and it makes sure that it really works for you, and if not, where the problem lies. If you have the same issue on several adapters with different chipsets, well...
I’d be more concerned with the chip the adapter uses. While I don’t have experience with their USB-C variants I’ve had good experiences otherwise with Axis.
As far as I can tell they seem to be the “go-to” in the USB-Ethernet game and are well supported on Linux and anything else I’ve used them on.
Can someone recommend quality USB(-C) ethernet adapters brand? I'm building an embedded system in a professional context and need to connect some of our own custom in-house built embedded devices (usb-c only, no ethernet) to LAN. Right now, when some device goes offline, I don't know wether it's our product or the cheapish usb-ethernet-adapter which is at fault. Would like to have something 100% reliable.
Shall I buy Lenovo or Dell?