I made a neat Discovery tonight.
My Chromecast 4K came with a power supply that doubles as a network adapter. It supports high speed internet so I didn't really have a use for it. I think it was yesterday I mentioned the cell phone I was installing postmarketOS on, I basically wanted to be a fairly long-term device that I will be using for building things on arm64. Now I can and could use the Wi-Fi for that purpose, and I still might, but I decided to try out the USB micro power adapter with the ethernet port inside, and sure enough the ethernet port in the power adapter provides ethernet to the phone.
I would imagine that it is USB on the go, so it's probably capped at an absolute maximum of 480 megabits, which is reason enough probably to stick with the wi-fi, but it's just a very interesting thing to discover that this unusual device is obviously standardized enough that it can provide ethernet connectivity to something else.
My Chromecast 4K came with a power supply that doubles as a network adapter. It supports high speed internet so I didn't really have a use for it. I think it was yesterday I mentioned the cell phone I was installing postmarketOS on, I basically wanted to be a fairly long-term device that I will be using for building things on arm64. Now I can and could use the Wi-Fi for that purpose, and I still might, but I decided to try out the USB micro power adapter with the ethernet port inside, and sure enough the ethernet port in the power adapter provides ethernet to the phone.
I would imagine that it is USB on the go, so it's probably capped at an absolute maximum of 480 megabits, which is reason enough probably to stick with the wi-fi, but it's just a very interesting thing to discover that this unusual device is obviously standardized enough that it can provide ethernet connectivity to something else.
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