“I was looking for an adapter for put my Raspberry zero behind the bedroom tv.
The best way to have 3 usb and one ethernet cable (for the best quality view i suggest the cable).
If you want to connect an usb bluetooth or an external drive or an usb keyboard or mouse this is the best option without buy a converter for the usb.
A very good product for small spaces.”
“Works great with Pi0, much more reliable connection the WiFi. Also, works as USB OTG for the android phones that supports USB OTG. I even make it work with Huawei phone - to get internet from the Ethernet and share it via Wifi.”
“This is one great little device, perfect addon for a Pi Zero, usb hub and network in a little nice looking package.
Works flawlessly!
Will buy one for every Pi Zero in the house.
Again, great service from Pimoroni.”
“Very useful for Raspberry Pi zero of course as it's bring network and several usb ports for keyboards, mouse and more.
But it work also with my Lenovo tablet, so I can use a RJ45 Ethernet cable to the network.
Unfortunately, it is not recognize as network device on my Notes phone”
“I tried other 3-port USB hub+RJ45 before without success, the Pimoroni adapter just works!
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=161121
Hermann.”
“TL;DR A good piece of kit and well worth the money!
The adapter arrived in a small zip-lock packet labelled "ADP005 Three Port USB Hub with Ethernet microB connector". First impressions are a neat and well made package of white, apple-like, hi-gloss plastic and smooth edges.
Measuring 85mm long by 24mm wide and 16mm high, it has a 115mm (approx) flylead with a moulded USB microB connector on the end. This comes out one end and the ethernet port is on the opposite end. The three USB ports are on one side near the end with the lead.
On the opposite side to those USB ports is a recess containing a label with the usual FCC and CE marks and some product information:
* USB Multi-function Lan Adapter
* USB Ethernet and 3Port HUB
* YS-LAN26 RT8152B
Activity lights permeate this label, offering a blue led glow.
There appears to be no easy way to open the case if one wanted to extract the innards for a project.
Some network tests using a Pi Zero running ArchLinuxARM follow. The network came up as a DHCP client without any special consideration.
A test using "nc" (pacman -S gnu-netcat) pumps a gigabyte across the network:
PiZero: 202.867s 5.3MB/s 42.4Mb/s
PiB256: 323.495s 3.3MB/s 26.4Mb/s
PiB512: 325.257s 3.3MB/s 26.4Mb/s
IntelX86: 91.2377 s, 11.8 MB/s 94.4Mb/s
An alternative test using "iperf" (pacman -S iperf)
PiZero: 94.0 Mbits/sec
PiB256: 57.6 Mbits/sec
PiB512: 58.1 Mbits/sec
IntelX86: 94.1 Mbits/sec
100base-T theoretical maximum is 100Mb/s or 12.5MB/s”
“Over the last few months I've had to flash SD cards almost every day for Pi Zero projects and writing. This has become indispensable for setting up Pis - it plugs straight in without a shim, will take a network cable (for zero config internet access via home router) and then gives three USB ports for a keyboard or mouse and a WiFi dongle. Once WiFi is set up everything can be unplugged and used headless. Get one so that you don't have to mess about with powered hubs, shims and USB Ethernet adapters.”
