Flat Ethernet Port (RJ-45)

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Hi, can someone please link me to a flat Ethernet Port (RJ-45) plug for my sons laptop.
I'm coming from the router but his laptop has a different socket.

Thanks in advance.
 
All RJ45 ports are the same, RJ11 is smaller (think modem/base station end of a conventional phone cable), are you sure his laptop (make/model?) has an RJ45 port? You can get USB or Lightening to RJ45 adapters which look flatter, but obviously you would recognise they aren't anything like an RJ45 port.
 
WJA96 said:
Definitely not. I’ve been into IT for over 40 years and I’ve never seen an RJ45 like that one. Very neat.
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Majority of new laptops these days have folding ports. I guess as they've made laptops thinner, the physical size of the port was restricting the thinness, and they've had to modify the design.
 
Semple said:
Majority of new laptops these days have folding ports. I guess as they've made laptops thinner, the physical size of the port was restricting the thinness, and they've had to modify the design.
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That's the challenge with being an Apple fanboi - everything looks like a USB C socket to me... :)
 
A lot of USB adaptors are awful though, at least a proper port built into the machine has a decent chance of providing a decent link.
 
I have ALL the dongles. They're a pain in the proverbial but it's Apple... So I put up with it. This looks like a really neat solution.
 
It's also unfortunately one of those product categories where it's sometimes just not possible to buy a quality option. Pages of Amazon results for Anker and Ugreen USB-C gigabit adaptors and they all overheat and suffer performance degradation when you push them hard, and have high failure rates.
 
Bouton Aide said:
Should bring a usb-c to rj45 adaptor and just bank usb-c on everything

EDIT: You can actually buy a usb-c to RJ45 another thing I didn't know as I haven't moved over to USB-C yet. ha!
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I believe pretty much everything can go through usb-c these days. - I'm sure I've seen a GPU that can be connected with usb-c. My work laptop has a thunderbolt dock which connects all peripherals (monitors/mouse/keyboard/headset/ethernet) and connects them to the laptop through a single USB-c port.
 
Semple said:
I believe pretty much everything can go through usb-c these days. - I'm sure I've seen a GPU that can be connected with usb-c. My work laptop has a thunderbolt dock which connects all peripherals (monitors/mouse/keyboard/headset/ethernet) and connects them to the laptop through a single USB-c port.
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I think all gadgets should use the same ports. It would be easier to get a hold of cables required then. Companies should stop making proprietary ones.
 
Caged said:
It's also unfortunately one of those product categories where it's sometimes just not possible to buy a quality option. Pages of Amazon results for Anker and Ugreen USB-C gigabit adaptors and they all overheat and suffer performance degradation when you push them hard, and have high failure rates.
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Been using USB-C to ethernet adapters for over a year now, never had an issue with performance.
 
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