TRENDnet Gigabit PCI Adapter
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Rating:  - * Compatibility Problems with Vista 32-bit ... I installed this in a brand new Vista 32-bit machine and the device manager reported that the device "could not be started". I tried the latest drivers from TrendNet's web site but that didn't resolve the problem. TrendNet's Knowledge Base also didn't have any information about Vista. Installing NIC's should be easy and this is probably the first that I've ever encountered problems with. I replaced this with the slightly more expensive Intel PWLA8391GT PRO/1000 GT PCI Network Adapter Network Adapter and everything works perfectly. For an extra $10, the Intel board will save you a lot of time if you have Vista. Rating:  - * Takes you off the hook, but it is not a very good product ... I bought this card as an addition to a Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition computer I run at home as my network server. It does it all: NAT, DHCP, DNS, file server, print server, and domain controller. I also have it set up to be SQL Server and web server for my own experiments. It is true that I was able to install it by simply connecting the card in a PCI slot. The OS picked it up as new hardware and I was not even prompted for drivers. The problems became apparent later on: The card is hooked up to a 16-port switch that connects all of my computers. I had no trouble navigating the Internet on other computers, but it turns out that I was having a lot of intermittent problems accessing other Windows services. For example, one Vista laptop could not print all of the sudden. It could not even connect to the server to enumerate the file shares! Nothing helped, and my Vista desktop was having no issues connecting to the server. The next day the laptop was working just fine, being able to print and enumerate file shares. I was also having problems copying a 6 GB file from the server to my Vista desktop. Most of the time the copy operation would be interrupted for no good reason, and when I once or twice was able to copy the file, a SHA1 hash revealed it was corrupt. So, troubleshooting my problem I notice this: My Windows session on the server was being cut off suddenly during the file copy; nothing remained in the Windows event logs to help me out. After that, my Vista desktop was having intermittent problems reconnecting to the server. I looked up updated drivers (the driver I was using for this card came from Microsoft) in the TrendNet website and the problem was largely resolved, but not 100%. I have experienced the same problem once already with the new drivers. I just hope the problem will not appear that much anymore, but to be 100% honest, I would not buy this brand again, or at the very least I just won't recommend this particular product. One more thing to note: When they worked, the Microsoft drivers were able to sustain a rather constant feed of 260 Mbits/s while the updated drivers from the manufacturer oscillate a LOT between 290 and almost 0 MBits/s. True, the new drivers don't cut me off as the Microsoft driver did. Rating:  - * Average Gigabit PCI Adapter ... It is a pretty good adapter. I didn't use the driver software that it came with because it was outdated instead It automatically found the necessary driver it needed on my pc and updated the driver using windows update. I haven't had any problems with it and it seems like it does just as good as the more expensive brands out there. I would recommend buying this one before wasting your money on something that costs twice as much. Rating:  - * Great with windows - trouble with Ubuntu ... I'll echo the previous review's sentiments about the ease of setting up the card with Windows XP - no problems at all. I did not have as much luck installing in a x86 box running Ubuntu 6.06 server. I never did completely resolve the issue but would appreciate any thoughts on the matter. Rating: - * good, cheap gigabit NIC ... I use a pair of these cards in Linux (FC6) and Windows XP. They were easy to install and support jumbo frames. On Linux, I set the MTU to 7000 and on Windows XP there was only a setting to "enable" jumbo frames in the Advanced tab on the driver properties. The Netgear GS605 supports jumbo frames, too, and I saw the transfer of a 3.5GB file go from 3m40s to 3m10s after enabling jumbo frames on both hosts. Highly recommended. |
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