What exactly can the USB Type-C (3.1 Gen 1) port do on the HP Pavilion x360 cd0050tx?

[the_panjan]

I want to know in details what that only type-c port that the laptop has is capable of and what not. HP is marketting that as (for Data Transfer only). It's a Type-C USB 3.1 Gen 1 port. Does it not support charging peripherals when connected to it or it can do everything but not power the host machine through a Type-C charger. Please provide accurate answer. I'm planning to buy some USB-C Hub that also happens to contain RJ-45 LAN port. Will the adapter work with it? I'd like to extend the number of ports through that one USB-C port. Can I do that or is it only capable of transferring data and nothing else even LAN networking?

[Huffer]

I happen to have had a laptop in that model series with the same ports. It can do eveything a USB 3.0 port can do. Think of it as a faster USB 3.0 port with a different shaped connector. It will work with the ethernet hub and will do everthing other than accept an incoming charge and carrying an Alt-DP native video signal. It will provide external video only through a port replicator that has DisplayLink which is video over USB. It will charge your cell phone or other external device. 

[the_panjan]

So that means it will support a hub that contains a RJ-45 LAN port as well as several USB 3.1 ports? I mean I wanna be extra sure before buying the adapter. That's why asking. And one thing for that matter, will the data transfer speed be reduced if I simultanously attach say 2 or more USB-3.1(Type-A) accesories to the hub that connects to the computer via the USB-C port?

[Huffer · Accepted solution]

USB 3.1 standard square shaped ports will never work faster than their stated speed and a USB-C port has higher speed potential. I have a USB-C external NVME adapter box. I can connect it with a usb-C cable direct to a usb-C port on the laptop and get read speeds like perhaps 1200 mbps and is I use a USB-C to USB 3.0 adapter and plug it into the USB 3.0 port on a usb-C hub it gets perhaps 500 mbps read speed even if it is the only connected device. A USB-C port will support several USB  3 ports connected by a hub and all will run at full USB 3.0 speed. An ethernet device on such a hub may need a driver but is essentially no different than a USB 3.0 to ethernet adapter. I have a USB-C mini-hub I have used on several laptops, some of which have USB-C Thunderbolt 3 full featured ports and others have just USB-C data only ports. In fact I used it with the 14-cdxxx I had for a while. It is an off brand one I bought from amazon made out of shiny black plastic and has 3 USB 3.0 ports and an ethernet. 

The 14-cdxxx would not drive an external monitor from the usb-C port with either a HDMI or DP adapter, however and Thunderbolt enabled laptops will.