In my opinion, this solution is just too dumbed down for the $199.99 MSRP, and you would be better off going for the full Thunderbolt Station 3 and have the full Monty of features. The front mounted ports should be usable at the same time and it's hard to see why they used an FL1100-100 single port host controller on a device that has three ports. With the TS3 Lite being a Thunderbolt 3 solution and all the available bandwidth given, it's hard for me to justify the USB 3.0 configuration of this device. In my testing, I reached 329 MB/s read and 323 MB/s write on our Intel 730 SSD that when directly connected to our test system was pushing 530 MB/s read and 500 MB/s write. Performance via the Gbe NIC was solid reaching the full potential of our test system while USB 3.0 performance wasn't terrible but could have been better. 'When I reconnected the Thunderbolt cable, my ethernet connection would not re-establish.' The XPS 15-9570 should be turned off, then reconnect the CalDigit TS3 Plus dock via TB cable to the XPS 15-9570, then turn the XPS 15-9570 on. With this setup you can't make your one-cable-dream come true, but you are able to use the CalDigit TS3+ dock on your MacBook Pro and Lenovo Thinkpad T14 with two external monitors.One of the only drawbacks I could find with this solution was the USB ports do share bandwidth and the front mounted USB-C and Type -A ports are an either-or setup, meaning you can only use one at a time. The PC uses a Realtek USB GBE Ethernet Controller driver to simulate ethernet.
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