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> Assembly isn't free, either an engineer or the PCB fabricator has to put that together

> your laptop's Ethernet adapter

The device as-designed likely wouldn't work with your laptop's ethernet adapter - hence why the author of TFA placed an isolation transformer and jack ...on a breakout board.



Heh I didn't notice it didn't have the isolation transformer. That is odd.




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