DTECH USB Extension Adapter USB to RJ45 Extender Over Cat5 Cat5e Ethernet Cable Set Connection up to 200ft

My use: I have a number of smart boards (of my own design) scattered around my house. I also have a small USB board which I use to re-program the flash in those boards. The USB board has a Silicon Graphics CP2102 USB-UART bridge and a small microprocessor. It is USB powered, but only uses about 10 ma. I am using this product with a 10 foot micro USB cable and a CAT6 cable up to 50 feet long to connect my computer in my study to which ever board I want to flash. I am powering my USB board through the cable with no additional power supply. It all works just fine.

MAKE SURE YOU PAY ATTENTION TO THE OTHER REVIEWS ON USB 1.1 LIMITATIONS.Just like another reviewer bought his for his APS, I bought this USB extender to monitor a Cyberpower CP1500AVRLCDa across the room for my Security DVR system, back to my NUT server on a Raspberry Pi. The device showed up in lusb without issue, and was sending data without issue. Now I can monitor both of my UPS's.For higher powered devices there is a 5V 3mm(?) jack on the side of the sender, just for FYI.Very happy with purchase.

Tried several cheaper versions that all proved unreliable or failed after a couple days. This has been running from my office pc to my server closet APC UPS to monitor the UPS, its about 50' of cat5e and has been running flawlessly for over a month with zero issues. I'm happy after dealing with multiple junk problems

I ordered this so I could charge an ipad that's mounted in a vandal proof housing in a hallway at work. There is no power close to it's location. I'm not using it to send or receive data, just for charging. I had some old cat 5e cable in my garage so attached two RJ-45 ends to it and plugged it in to my phone's charger using the usb to ethernet adapters. The cat 5 is 70 feet long. When I plugged it into my Galaxy s7 phone the charging tone played and it displayed a message that said "charging will take longer than normal, please use the charger that came with the device", or something to that effect. The phone was already charged to 75%. Normal (Galaxy s7 fast charging) charging would only take 35 minutes, charging with the USB to ethernet adapter on 70' of cat 5 with the phone's original charger will take about 3 hours. I checked the voltage using a volt meter and it was reading 4.98 volts at the usb portion of the complete 70' connection. The ipad will not get used that much so the slow charging isn't an issue. The bottom line is that it works for charging using 70' of cat 5e. will have to try it on the ipad at work and see how it works out. Edit. I tried to get it to work with an ipad 6 using the 70' of ethernet cable but it wouldn't work. it just can't deliver enough power over that long of a distance using the stock charger that the ipad comes with, even using a 10' ethernet cable wouldn't allow it to charge. If I had a better power source it would probably work. there is a connection to add an additional power source at the end of the run but that's not something that will work with my application.

It's not rocket science, it's a USB extender. And it works. I wouldn't want to step on it, but where I have it under a desk it's safe enough.

This item is not recognized by Windows XP (Professional SP3) as claimed, nor is there a driver available for it.

This extension device is very inexpensive for a reason. It only supports USB 1.0 & 1.1. Unfortunately, that fact is buried deep in the product description.

This plugged right in to our existing ethernet and I'm able to run USB (alongside an HDMI run) so I can have my monitor and keyboard and mouse downstairs and our noisy PC upstairs. Nice product!