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Can a USB LAN adapter be used in place of a NIC?

Jul 5, 2017 11:57AM PDT

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Yes.
Jul 5, 2017 12:13PM PDT

And I'm impressed at the device/OS support. This means it should find uses on many things for quite some time.

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Building
Jul 5, 2017 11:13PM PDT

If your building a machine doesn't the mobo have a lan socket?

If it does why do you need this adapter?