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The Macbook Air USB ethernet adapter doesn't reliably work on older switches, routers or DSL modems.

When connected to many of these devices (including linksys wired routers), it doesn't properly detect the speed.

Not only is that annoying, but when the speed is manually set, it doesn't retain the settings often until you reset it multiple times.

This is both a software and a hardware problem, apparently, but could likely be remediated with a software fix.

My data was transferred by the Apple Store from my Macbook Air to a new Air because the first one developed a bad keyboard after 3 days.

But the transfer process apparently didn't copy any files over 8GB in size. So all my most important data was lost and I had to reinstall a bunch of stuff.

This problem needs to be fixed.