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If you wanted to connect to two different networks you could use this. So say you had an internal network which you had your own computers all linked to but were not connected to the internet, you could use one port to connect to this network. Then you could connect the other port to a broadband router/modem and access the internet on your Mac Pro. It's ...
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From Super User: If I have two internet connections on osx, how can I use both to increase my bandwidth?:
Short answer: no. With 2 links, you have 2 IP addresses. It can be done with some specific higher end NICs (e.g. Intel quad cards), but they will appear to the rest of the network as a single IP address in that mode. If the assumption is that you ...
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The first problem might be that the adapter is not hot-pluggable, so be sure to connect it and reboot.
If you still have difficulties, I've found driver information while looking at the Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter page at Apple Store.
Google "broadcom driver windows netxtreme". Select the netxtreme I
Desktop/Mobile driver. Install via ...
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Gigabit ethernet to gigabit ethernet. Next would be FireWire 800 to FireWire 800. Thunderbolt target disk mode is testing to be equivalent to FireWire 800 in target disk mode.
It looks like the OS can keep a gigabit link fuller than target disk mode is able, even when the target mode link has vastly higher bandwidth available.
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If you are using VMWare or Parallels you can connect a virtual machine directly to one specific network interface (WiFi in the example)
and use the other interface as the default for OS X:
In the specific situation described in the question it may be too much of a hassle though.
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You should be able to do this via Ethernet or wireless, depending on whether you want to buy a wireless dongle for your TV or whether you have the Ethernet adapter for your MacBook Air.
If you have the USB Ethernet adapter, you should be able to follow the instructions found here:
Set up the Sharing -The first step is to set up sharing on the host Mac. ...
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StarTech makes the USB31000S, which is a USB 3.0 to Gigabit Ethernet adapter with support for VLANs, jumbo frames and checksum offloading. List price is about USD 55.
These are based on the ASIX AX88179 chip, which has drivers for OS X 10.6 - 10.8 available (bottom of previous link). Any other product using this chip would also work.
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It's not USB 3.0, but the Belkin F5D5055 USB 2.0 Gigabit Ethernet adapter is supported out the box by 10.7 (haven't checked 10.6) and delivers better performance than the Apple 10/100Mbps adapter. I can get speeds of around 35MB/s with my mid-2011 i7 Air.
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I have run Link Aggregation on macs since 10.4 and it's really nice when you have a gigabit switch. You will need a switch that runs LACP and two physical ethernet ports like is typical on G4 & G5 PowerMacs days and of course the entire MacPro line.
Mac OS X won't show LACP as an option without two ethernet ports. I don't know of a switch that does ...
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Only if the application itself supports this. If it does, it will have config files that allow you to specify either an IP address to bind to, or an interface name to bind to.
You would then find out your internal IP address by checking the Network control panel or the interface by checking ifconfig through the terminal.
As far as I know.
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I'm guessing here, but it your network settings may have the ethernet interface prioritized above the AirPort (this is the default setting), meaning that when both are connected it'll try to reach the internet through the ethernet connection. You can check this easily be looking at the order the network "services" are listed in the sidebar of the Network ...
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I suspect the issue might be that your routers probably have the same IP address on both networks. So if your printer router and your internet router both have an IP address of 192.168.1.1 then your Mac may not know which interface to choose for traffic to that network. So it will probably pick the network which is listed first on the list in System ...
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I’ve seen people have an external powered Hub connected to the Air, then connect the USB to Ethernet trinket to the hub and have no problems with it. If the Cinema Display functions as a normal hub, then you should have no problems with it.
The USB specification doesn’t make distinctions from internal/external ports (in theory).
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Mac Wireless & Airport Connection Problem Troubleshooting: The Basics
* Turn Airport on & off – You can do this via the Airport menu bar or from the Network Preferences. This is the first thing you should try when troubleshooting Mac wireless problems.
Reset your router – This is the second thing you should try doing. You can fix a surprising ...
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Try disconnecting all power supplies from the outlet/power source and the device. After 3 minutes hold the reset button down on the AEBS and then connect the power. Continue to hold the reset button down until the light on the front starts flashing amber fast or 5 seconds has elapsed (which ever happens first). If after the factory restore [not hard reset] ...
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i had the same problem and a couple of minutes ago i saw something about the "Android File Transfer Agent" havin problem with the device.
so uninstalled "iSyncr" software (sync adroid over Wifi), disconect the usb device, plug it again and now its working fine !!
i hope this works... goos luck !!!
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I had this problem, too, and an Apple Support call and Genius Bar visit later, I had the answer: if you're using Network Locations that preexist your Thunderbolt display, it doesn't seem to auto-add the possibility of "Display Ethernet" to your available network ports. To solve this, either:
Create a new Location in your Network system preferences. It will ...
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Please explain: are you attempting to update your TV's firmware? If so, check the TV's manual - I'm pretty sure it's done by loading from your Macbook to a USB drive. HDMI over ethernet is a system built to provide a digital television signal over two cat5 cables. It requires extra hardware on each end, and is quite likely not what you are looking for.
If ...
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This is fixed in Mac OS 10.8.3.
In MacOS 10.8.2 although I faced an issue:
I have a version from Delock running driver V1.3.0 (but V1.2.0 showed exact same behaviour). Adapter runs fine on first connect. If unplugged and plugged in again it will not work unless I reboot. Best solution I found is to reload the driver by hand. That saves you at least the ...
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but will it affect speed of LAN transfers?
Well, you can choose which one would be preferred (by dragging it to the top in the Network preference panel):
As far as I know you cannot get a FASTER transfer by using both at once...
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When your connections starts timing out, can you do arp -an in Terminal.app and see if you still have all MAC addresses in the ARP table? as in - your router's MAC address, or the host you're trying to ping?
If you do (and you have the time before it starts working again), can you flush the arp table (sudo arp -ad) and then see if your router's MAC address ...
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First, I see dropbox running in your menu bar; have you disabled that, yet?
Second, try removing any other startup/login items. Look in:
Login:
~/Library/LaunchAgents/
~/Library/LaunchDaemons/
System Preferences > Users & Groups > Login Items
Startup:
/Library/LaunchAgents/
/Library/LaunchDaemons/
/Library/StartupItems/
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Could you first check that you are really using the network interface
you should:
ifconfig -a
Could you look at the output of the following commands (if en0 is the
network interface name of your Ethernet card):
netstat -I en0
To help locate the problem could you make a specific Location with just
your Ethernet card activated and if possible only using ...
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There is a great deal of information here on the troubleshooting and diagnostic end of things, but sometimes when troubleshooting it's fun to return to basics and question some assumptions.
As I mentioned in a comment, this looks very much like a QOS router kicking in due to your machine temporarily exceeding some bandwidth or packet rate cap.
What if you ...
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You won't be able to permanently change the MAC address of the card, as it is hard coded on the card itself. However, as you have guessed, you could create a script and run it at boot in order to change it every time the computer boots.
This post details the steps it takes create the script and how to have it run when you want it to. If you follow ...
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From my own experience Internet Sharing is not, and has never been, as reliable as it should. Connection coming back and forth is a usual behavior of the service, heavily depending on the usage of the machine which is sharing the internet connection.
Apparently, updating to 10.7.4 makes things even worse.
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Yes - you should see the hardware device in Lion's System Information pane under USB devices if it has any working pins that the computer can see and sense.
From there, it's an OS / driver / kernel issue and the simplest thing to do is often to install a clean OS on an external drive and see if it's somehow a setting or corrupt preference file.
These have ...
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You can have only one default gateway, so you have to pick one interface as your default route. If you add static routes for specific IP networks, you could have traffic directed out the other interface for those networks, but that's going to be painful to maintain. The route/ISP that you send traffic out, will be the same one that return traffic comes on.
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You could try FireWire Target Disk Mode. Boot the source computer while holding down the T key and connect to the destination computer. The source's drive(s) will show up on the desktop and you can copy files that way.
I don't know if it will be any faster; the bottleneck could be your hard drive speeds.
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