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Written by Brian Marick on 2025-01-27 at 15:00

Descriptions of USB hubs are not helping me.

I have before me an old Macbook Air M1 with two USB-C ports and no dedicated charging port. One of the ports is dead, so I can either charge the computer or use USB to transfer data. I wish to do both at the same time.

Is there a USB hub that will let me send power into the computer while at the same time supporting a USB-to-Ethernet dongle so that I can have a fast route from the laptop to my NAS?

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Written by Chris Petrilli on 2025-01-27 at 15:13

@marick yes. There’s quite a few USB-C hubs with power pass through. I’ve even seen some with Ethernet built in (just connected via USB internally). Most of the Anker ones do it. https://www.anker.com/collections/hubs

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Written by Claudius Link on 2025-01-27 at 15:43

@petrillic @marick

I think what you need to check is that the USB hub supports Power Delivery/PD with a sufficient amount of Watts

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Written by Brian Marick on 2025-01-28 at 00:23

@realn2s @petrillic Thanks. That helped.

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