TRENDnet 32-bit 10/100/1000Mbps Copper Gigabit PCI Adapter, Up to 2000Mbps Speed in Full-Duplex, Built-in FIFO (8K/64K) Buffers, TEG-PCITXR

This review is of the TRENDnet 10/100/1000Mbps Gigabit PCI Adapter and not the other 7 network adapters in this listing. FYI. I got this PCI LAN adapter for a client as part of my IT practice. Their dedicated and very old Dell Optiplex with Windows XP experienced a failure of the integrated LAN interface. The embedded machine control hardware/software made it worthwhile to keep this old box alive. The Trendnet PCI LAN adapter installed easily and Windows XP drivers were on the CD and easily installed. In less than a half hour the old box was talking to their file server and running the process machinery. Newer operating system will likely already have drivers for this gigabit LAN card built-in. As a replacement network interface or to add a dedicated port for a virtual machine or an upgrade from an old 10/100 LAN interface this Trendnet PCI adapter does its job well and is very simple to install. It helped my client out of a jam. I've used these cards with other clients too. They have just worked and that makes everyone happy. 5 Stars for the Trendnet 10/100/1000 PCI LAN adapter.

Over the summer one of the small business' that I work for computers was an unfortunate target of a thunder and lightning storm. Although plugged into a surge protector, one lightning strike was a little too close. Luckily the only thing that went was the ethernet card that was installed in the tower PC. After searching quickly on Amazon for a suitable replacement, which really was any cheaper card that could get the job done, I found this particular card from TRENDnet and sold by Tiger Direct. I have to say that Tiger Direct was AMAZING in this purchase. I think this is the first time I have ever bought anything from Tiger Direct, so it was a great first experience for me. After being the cheapest seller with FREE shipping, the time it took for the package to get to camp grounds was only a few days after I had purchased the product on Amazon. I couldn't believe it. So, that is my first recommendation. If you have the opportunity to go with Tiger Direct, certainly try to do so. Maybe I just got lucky, but it worked out great. Finally, the ethernet card itself has been working great ever since the simple installation in the tower PC. Just slipped it into the PCI slot where the other ethernet card was and the connection was fine and has been fine since.

I got this at the end of July so I could make a computer on my network gigabit capable. I installed it and got everything working correctly. Tested the transfer speeds and they were around 4-6x faster than before which was a plus. Near the end of August I noticed that my switch was showing a yellow light for that computer which means it wasn't functioning at gigabit speeds anymore. I checked in windows and sure enough it was back down to 100 mbit. I reinstalled drivers, played around in settings, and it won't go back to using gigabit. I sent TrendNet a support ticket on their website about a week ago and they have yet to get back to me. Was good while it lasted, which was only for a month.

i bought this to replace the 10/100 adapter in my vista / debian box when the adapter died. i was in the process of rolling everything over to gigabit on the home network, so the timing was great :) anyways, i noticed a quick gain in speed when transferring from the pc over to my buffalo nas, but not the jump in speed i was hoping for. the pre-installed drivers within vista were outdated, so i grabbed the updated drivers. this gave me access to additional settings, including jumbo frames. i initially set jumbo frames to 7k, but this would cause the nas to drop out. i backed it down to about 4k, and the nas finally started playing along. i'm not entirely pleased with transfer speeds (about 25MBps max to the nas), but i know the fault isn't with this adapter. my router is also causing a bit of a bottleneck, so upgrading that will improve things even more. i'm giving the adapter five stars because it's very easy to install and set up for basic use. the advanced setup stuff (updating drivers, changing frame size settings, etc) is all easily searchable online, so most people with basic computer knowledge should be able to tweak this adapter for better performance. for the price, this quick and easy upgrade from 10/100 is very much worth it. just make sure to use cat5e (or even higher) ethernet cables too!

I wanted to upgrade all the computers on our office's LAN to gigabit NICs. I first bought the TPL NT TG-3269 32bit Gigabit NIC to test in one of the desktops (all running XP Pro SP3) because the price was the lowest of the gigabit NICs. Unfortunately, the NIC failed to install and was promptly returned for the next-cheapest option, this card. I tested the file transfer speed between the test computer and my computer, which came with an on-board Marvell Yukon 88E8057 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller. The two computers are connected to each other with a NETGEAR GS108 ProSafe 8-Port Gigabit Ethernet Desktop Switch . (The megabit router/gateway connected to the outside world is "further up" on the network.) With the test computer's on-board megabit NIC, a 1.1 GB file transferred in 2:17, or roughly 64 Mbps. With this TRENDnet NIC, the time was cut to 0:42, or roughly 210 Mbps. While a significant improvement, it's no where near the advertised 2000 Mbps. In the NIC's defense, I can't easily determine which part of the network is the slowest link without running more tests and trials. My only other complaint is that the card only has a link and an activity light, no indicators for 100 vs 1000 Mbps link speeds, etc. Not a big deal though, given the price. A more expensive card may achieve higher speeds on our network, but this one works well enough for our needs so far. I'm going to see how it works over a month or so before purchasing more for the rest of our office's computers.

very nice, qiuick and easy to set up

Très stable et économique, parfaite pour un pc classique ou autre (linux...). Remplace haut la main le chipset réseau intégré des cartes mères.

No puedo decir mucho sobre una tarjeta gigabit ethernet PCI, ya que va como esperaba, es decir, a la perfección. En windows 7 no hace falta descargar controladores ya que se instalan solos.

Ho preso questa scheda perché una delle poche compatibili e riconosciute in automatico dal ClearOs 5.2 che uso come gateway, server ftp, server web, e server VPN, attraverso il ClearOs 5.2....devo dire che al momento fa egregiamente il suo lavoro... Con Windows credo non ci debbano essere problemi...

Had struggled for ages with my Hackintosh and the drivers for the onboard LAN port. Plugged this in and have had no problems since.