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A short update to the issue I encountered with using the USB to ethernet adapter with the Cube 3 USB port. I thought the adapter or port was acting up, but I now believe the issue is with the Cube's FW. You can set the screen savers to come on from 5 minutes to never, but if they do they only run a few minutes then the Cube goes to sleep anyway. In other words, regardless of screen saver settings, the Cube 3 will go to sleep after 15 minutes of inactivity, or it will briefly play screen savers then go to sleep. That is likely a bug, or an incredibly dumb feature.

When the Cube goes to sleep, you can set whether it actually turns off or just sleeps. Unfortunately when it goes into sleep mode, it loses connection to the internet and that was causing issues when it awakes. Ironically it would come up as a black screen when awakening because the internet connection had not had time to reconnect before the interface gets displayed, so it just stayed black. Pressing the Home button immediately brings up the interface because by that time the internet connection is working again. I guess Amazon decided to stop comms with the internet during sleep and off modes to conserve energy and just didn't think it through.

It doesn't seem to be an issue if you use the actual ethernet port, but using the USB port with a ethernet adapter is when the issue arrives. Just give it a few seconds to reconnect with the mother ship then hit Home and all will work. Hopefully they can fix that. BTW, I never had this issue with the Cube 2. So either use the ethernet port for just under 100 Mbps, or use the USB port with a 1 Gbps adapter but hit the Home button after coming out of sleep or off modes.

Personally, I never had a bit of issue with data speeds using the ethernet port as I got a steady 92+ Mbps speed. That frees up the USB port for external storage if you need it. Apple makes you buy a fixed storage amount, but the Cube 3 can use what you plug into the USB port.