Flat Ethernet Port (RJ-45)

Ynot · 17 Oct 2020 at 16:12

Hi, can someone please link me to a flat Ethernet Port (RJ-45) plug for my sons laptop.
I'm coming from the router but his laptop has a different socket.

Thanks in advance.

copycatuk · 17 Oct 2020 at 16:13

Pics of the socket please.

Avalon · 17 Oct 2020 at 16:28

All RJ45 ports are the same, RJ11 is smaller (think modem/base station end of a conventional phone cable), are you sure his laptop (make/model?) has an RJ45 port? You can get USB or Lightening to RJ45 adapters which look flatter, but obviously you would recognise they aren't anything like an RJ45 port.

andy_mk3 · 17 Oct 2020 at 16:33

It will likely have a folding port that will open up to full size.

Ynot · 17 Oct 2020 at 16:33

Thank you, its easier for me to give name of laptop

Its a HP ProBook 450 G7 Notebook PC

http://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/getpdf.aspx/c06424519.pdf
Thanks

bremen1874 · 17 Oct 2020 at 16:34

As above, it's a hinged port. It takes a standard plug.

Ynot · 17 Oct 2020 at 16:40

ahh great, thank you. (im stupid )

WJA96 · 18 Oct 2020 at 12:22

Ynot said:
ahh great, thank you. (im stupid )

Definitely not. I’ve been into IT for over 40 years and I’ve never seen an RJ45 like that one. Very neat.

Semple · 18 Oct 2020 at 12:38

WJA96 said:
Definitely not. I’ve been into IT for over 40 years and I’ve never seen an RJ45 like that one. Very neat.

Majority of new laptops these days have folding ports. I guess as they've made laptops thinner, the physical size of the port was restricting the thinness, and they've had to modify the design.

Deleted member 77746 · 18 Oct 2020 at 12:48

Well I never knew this!

WJA96 · 18 Oct 2020 at 13:00

Semple said:
Majority of new laptops these days have folding ports. I guess as they've made laptops thinner, the physical size of the port was restricting the thinness, and they've had to modify the design.

That's the challenge with being an Apple fanboi - everything looks like a USB C socket to me...

Deleted member 77746 · 18 Oct 2020 at 13:02

WJA96 said:
That's the challenge with being an Apple fanboi - everything looks like a USB C socket to me...

Should bring a usb-c to rj45 adaptor and just bank usb-c on everything

EDIT: You can actually buy a usb-c to RJ45 another thing I didn't know as I haven't moved over to USB-C yet. ha!

Caged · 18 Oct 2020 at 13:53

A lot of USB adaptors are awful though, at least a proper port built into the machine has a decent chance of providing a decent link.

WJA96 · 18 Oct 2020 at 13:54

I have ALL the dongles. They're a pain in the proverbial but it's Apple... So I put up with it. This looks like a really neat solution.

WJA96 · 18 Oct 2020 at 13:54

Caged said:
A lot of USB adaptors are awful though, at least a proper port built into the machine has a decent chance of providing a decent link.

I couldn't agree more.

Caged · 18 Oct 2020 at 15:00

It's also unfortunately one of those product categories where it's sometimes just not possible to buy a quality option. Pages of Amazon results for Anker and Ugreen USB-C gigabit adaptors and they all overheat and suffer performance degradation when you push them hard, and have high failure rates.

Ynot · 18 Oct 2020 at 17:25

WJA96 said:
Definitely not. I’ve been into IT for over 40 years and I’ve never seen an RJ45 like that one. Very neat.

Ahh well, that's not so bad

Thanks

Semple · 19 Oct 2020 at 06:51

Bouton Aide said:
Should bring a usb-c to rj45 adaptor and just bank usb-c on everything

EDIT: You can actually buy a usb-c to RJ45 another thing I didn't know as I haven't moved over to USB-C yet. ha!

I believe pretty much everything can go through usb-c these days. - I'm sure I've seen a GPU that can be connected with usb-c. My work laptop has a thunderbolt dock which connects all peripherals (monitors/mouse/keyboard/headset/ethernet) and connects them to the laptop through a single USB-c port.

Deleted member 77746 · 19 Oct 2020 at 08:28

Semple said:
I believe pretty much everything can go through usb-c these days. - I'm sure I've seen a GPU that can be connected with usb-c. My work laptop has a thunderbolt dock which connects all peripherals (monitors/mouse/keyboard/headset/ethernet) and connects them to the laptop through a single USB-c port.

I think all gadgets should use the same ports. It would be easier to get a hold of cables required then. Companies should stop making proprietary ones.

pepp77 · 19 Oct 2020 at 08:43

Caged said:
It's also unfortunately one of those product categories where it's sometimes just not possible to buy a quality option. Pages of Amazon results for Anker and Ugreen USB-C gigabit adaptors and they all overheat and suffer performance degradation when you push them hard, and have high failure rates.

Been using USB-C to ethernet adapters for over a year now, never had an issue with performance.