PANPEO USB Over Ethernet, USB Extender Over Cat5/5e/6/6e Adapter,Compatible with Computers, Mobile Phones, Mice, Keyboards, U Disks, Printers, Cameras - 2 Pairs

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Perhaps these are meant to work in a very short distance. The specification indicates 150'. I ran cat5 at a much shorter distance and it didnt work at all. It just cost me a trip back to my supplier to buy a powered version. I should have known better, been installing a long time.

These work as intended and expected. good value.

I ordered these so I could place a computer in a nearby building and run USB extenders to my desktop.  I only need to run a keyboard and mouse so high speed isn't a requirement for me but I will test it in this review.  Remote Desktop is not an option in my situation so I wanted to see if I could extend USB this far and see if this item would work.  This would prevent me from having to go to the other building just to restart an app or something else that doesn't require touching the machine.  My first test was a Logitech G703 mouse using a nothing special UTP CAT5e about 50' long.  This mouse can either be connected to USB with a wire or wirelessly with a receive. Connecting the mouse wirelessly or wired, worked flawlessly.  Then I replaced the receiver for the mouse with the one for my Logitech K545 keyboard and it too worked flawlessly.  I repeated these tests on a 150' CAT6 cable and both devices worked great.Next, I connected a color laser printer to the USB extenders and a 150' CAT6 cable.  I sent one full page color image to the printer and the printer had no issues printing with no delay.Then I went for a speed tests.  For a baseline I used a Windows 2022 Server, a USB3.0 Gen2 port, iodd2531 USB3.0 to SATA adapter, Samsung 850EVO 120GB SSD.  I copied a 10GB file from the desktop to the SSD which took about 1 minute 15 seconds at a speed of about 145MB/s according to my eyes.  I then moved the iodd2531 USB adapter and SSD to the 50' ethernet and these USB extenders.  The iodd2531 powered up but did not mount the SSD so I was unable to perform the test.  This USB-SSD adapter is USB powered so that may be the issue.  I switched to a USB2.0 thumb drive to repeat the test.  The thumb drive in the USB3.0 port transferred the 10GB file at about 6.5MB/s and took about 33 minutes.  The thumb drive in the same port and using the USB extenders and 50' cable, the same file took 3 hours 27 minutes to copy.  On the 150' cable, the USB drive did not mount.A Western Digital USB3.0 External Hard drive (with external power supply) was connected to a USB3.0 port and took 1 minute, 6 seconds to copy the 10GB file at about 180MB/s.  On the 50' cable, the drive showed up but was not readable.  On the 150' cable, the drive did not show up.Last, I connected a color laser printer to the USB extenders and the 150' CAT6 cable.  I sent one full page color image to the printer and the printer had no issues printing with no delay.I recommend these extenders for keyboard, mouse, printer but not for storage devices. LovingTheRetiredLife

First off, while these support USB 2.0, they do not run at the max USB 2.0 speeds - I'm assuming much of that is due to a combination of low cost components, and not enough power. I would not try these on any self powered drives - the speeds would be very limited. I think they are best for input devices (mouse, keyboard, and similar), but not really suited for gaming uses either. The main feature these have going for them is price - if you don't mind the limitations and just need something for USB devices that don't need much power to operate, and don't use much bandwidth, these might work. But don't expect high performance, and I don't recommend using them for any sort of USB storage. (Even if they ran at full USB 2.0 speeds, unless it's a really old drive that only supports USB 2.0, you would still be losing a significant amount of transfer speed compared to what the drive can do when plugged into a USB 3.0 port.)

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I tried both of the included USB male to female Ethernet adapters on an HP i5 laptop, a Powerspec i7 desktop, and an older ThinkPad. (I did not try the two USB female to Ethernet male adapters because I don’t need that capability.)On ALL THREE machines, the PANPEO device IS NOT RECOGNIZED as a USB device (like nothing was plugged in).On the HP laptop, this was true on both the "SS" (super-speed) and regular USB jacks.On the desktop, Windows acted like nothing was plugged in to the USB 2.0 jack. When I plugged the PANPEO into the desktop USB 3.0 jack, windows reported that the device "requires more power than the USB port could provide". (But note in the description on Amazon, it says the device requires no power at all.)On both computers, Device Manager shows no device plugged in, and the devices passed no network signals. (So I ordered a TP-Link adapter, which works flawlessly.)Bottom line, skip this item. It's a failure, at least based on the item I received.

I use this for a barcode scanner with a 6ft CAT6 cable, and that works fine. Since I was curious, and a barcode scanner is not exactly a high speed device, I tried the 2nd pair in the package to extend a USB-to-Gigabit-Ethernet dongle with about 40ft of CAT5 cable that receives a feed from several cameras. The image for all cameras is smooth. Impressive.