How to connect the LG UltraFine 5K to Ethernet, USB, and more!How do you connect all your old accessories to your brand new LG UltraFine 5K display? With these dongles, of course!
The LG UltraFine 5K display is a great panel in a drab box with only three 5 Gbps USB-C ports on the back. You can blame the enormous bandwidth taken up by the single Thunderbolt 3 port, which not only provides power to a MacBook Pro, but also transits 5K worth of pixels at 60 Hz. That sums up the problem. The solution, as you may have guessed, is dongles adapters.
Here's what I used to get the equivalent of my 2015 iMac connections back.
Note: USB-C accessories have been a mess over the last couple of years with a lot of inferior or just plain bad products hitting the market. I'm sticking to Apple adapters here — because they're certified and on sale at up to 50% off until March 31, 2017 — and a few cables from Amazon that are inexpensive but recommended by people I trust.
Ethernet
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How to connect the LG UltraFine 5K to Ethernet, USB, and more!
