#Ethernet cable for mac pro 2013 drivers

I always use and recommend 'powered' USB hubs that come with their own AC adaptor (wall wart). I've been using Belkin hubs for more than 20 years with no problems. I like to stick to name brands like Belkin and D-Link, and they have never failed me. You can absolutely use just about any USB hub you want on the Mac Pro, and only the cheapest and crappiest ones won't be able to recharge your keyboard and mouse using the Lightning cable. No cables needed! But I use wired because I don't want to deal with recharging the battery and my keyboard never moves, so. The Lightning cable is usually used with your keyboard and mouse only to charge their internal battery - they connect to the computer wirelessly over BlueTooth. I use a wired Apple keyboard and mouse (posh Kensington Expert Mouse trackball actually - it's my favorite for 25+ years). It would be a very Apple-like decision to have nothing on the back but a row of identical connectors. If there is a successor to the Mac Pro cylinder it will undoubtedly use TB3 on USB-C connectors. That said, TB3 via USB-C is potentially double the bandwidth of TB2 - so 40 Gb/sec. He actually kind of chuckled when I asked if I was in danger of saturating the bus when using it for audio.

#Ethernet cable for mac pro 2013 drivers

The guy who wrote the TB drivers and firmware for the MOTU AVB audio interfaces told me that for audio use I could put my 128 i/o MOTU rig and as many UAD boxes as I wanted on the same TB2 Bus and not be in any danger of saturation. I was told that a single 4k display can use more than 50% of a TB2 Bus depending on refresh rate, but I haven't tested this. The only restrictions on this setup in terms of being in danger of saturating any one of the TB Busses is if you're trying to use two 4k displays on the same TB Bus. I basically just plug stuff in wherever I want and it always works.

I think for a while I had the 4k display and the 2560x1440 display on the same TB Bus by accident but everything worked fine.

The MOTU setup is configured to provide 128 channels of audio i/o to the host, and even with that and the UAD box maxed out there have been no problems. I have a 4k display on one TB Bus, two fully-loaded MultiDocks and a 2560x1440 display on the second TB Bus, and on the third TB Bus I have a UAD2-Octo Thunderbolt DSP box and a MOTU 112d+1248 setup. Each pair of ports is called a 'Thunderbolt Bus' and each is roughly equivalent to a single PCIe slot, so the architecture is similar to the 3-slot arrangement on the silver Mac Pro towers. It's 20 Gb/sec on each pair of ports on the Mac Pro cylinder.