alt Hacker NewsWhat's so odd about this is that they add the flash ($), but skip the magnetics! It just has series capacitors and I don't think the jack has integrated magnetics since it's small and it wouldn't make sense to have a series cap as well.
What's so odd about this is that they add the flash ($), but skip the magnetics! It just has series capacitors and I don't think the jack has integrated magnetics since it's small and it wouldn't make sense to have a series cap as well.
Wow, good eye. You can see the PCB is designed to take either magnetics or series caps, but the caps would have to be DNP’ed.
I would actually be really angry to discover a USB Ethernet dongle I bought didn’t have magnetics built in.