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Value For Money
Customers are highly satisfied with the value for money of the StarTech.com Gigabit Ethernet Network Adapter Card, expressing that it exceeds their expectations and is a great investment for ensuring a reliable network connection. Some customers have noted that while the price may not be the absolute best on the market, they were willing to pay the price for specific features such as low-profile brackets or compatibility with older systems.
Easy Setup
Customers have generally positive feedback regarding the ease of setting up this network adapter card, with most reporting a straightforward installation process and automatic driver recognition in various operating systems including Windows and Linux. A few customers mentioned that they were able to revive old computers or improve their connection speeds by using this product. However, some users noted that a bracket screw would have been appreciated for securing the card in place during installation.
Speed
Customers have generally positive feedback regarding the speed performance of the StarTech.com PCI Ethernet Network Adapter Card, with some mentioning significant improvement in transfer speeds. However, a few customers noted that it only delivers up to 100mbps instead of advertised 1000mbps.
Highlights
Quality
The product is great and works perfectly in my upgraded 15 year old dell optioned 745 desktop
Excellent network card easy to install and is fully powered by the pci slot.
Inevitably the card is made in china.
Received this card today after my motherboard mounted broadcom chip mysteriously stopped working.
Price
Perfect and a great price - more than happy to recommend.
These are great value cards if you need a gigabit network connection using a normal pci slot (not pci-express, short slot)
For the money i am sure it cannot be beaten.
Not the best value for money, but that was the price to pay to ensure device was shipped with a low-profile bracket.
Packaging/appearance
So far so good; can improve on the packaging as it was slightly dented.
This is a very well packaged network interface card, and as such arrived in perfect condition.
Despite being a low profile card, it also came with a normal sized bracket in the box incase you changed your mind and wanted t... Read More
Competitiveness
Works well on linux, and presumably on any other modern os too, since the realtek chip is very common.
Found it to be lot slower when transferring same 10gb file over my lan network around 90 mb/s instead of usual 113 mb/s, a 23 m... Read More
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- This product had a total of 849 reviews as of our last analysis date on Nov 24 2024.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Despite being a low profile card it also came with a normal sized bracket in the box incase you changed your mind and wanted to put the card into a regular sized desktop
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Fyi this card uses a realtek chipset
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I installed this card very easily but even after altering setting to allow a gigabit connection it still only connects 100
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Ive read somewhere that cables can be the cause i will try that next
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
For other people with outdated atx cases like mine i suggest you first remove the bracket from the card 2 philipsheaded screws should you decide to modify it
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The metal is soft so you can use a small pair of tin snips and pliers to score bend and break small shards off the edge
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Not many choices for gige on older nonexpress pci machines
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