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Bought two of these both worked great. Connected this to a 2 pair only (half-ethernet cable) and got a clean 100Mbs connection... which shocked me. Solid 1Gbs connection on a full cable. Very clean. Price was good.

Basic plug and play Installed, updated new drivers and BAM. From 925 to 1307. Like right NOW. All test 5-7 in a row all consistent. File transfer just awesome. Not one complaint. Than You.

Does exactly what it is supposed to. Setup was as easy as any other networking card, except ten times the speed! We put one of these on our server, and on our video editing workstation. We have a Netgear 10gbe XS708E switch between them. They are all connected through shielded CAT7. In a realistic day-to-day use, it's usually around 300 to 500 MBps. In some specific scenarios (large ISO files, etc) it goes to over 700MBps. This easily maxes out the SSD on the workstation! We no longer have to copy video files locally at our studio, instead they can remain on the server. It was very easy to set up link aggregation. I managed a peak of roughly 1.8GBps transfers to the server in specific scenarios, like setting up a ramdrive, running ATTO, etc.

AWesome card

-Works without dropping connection (unlike like my onboard intel wired network adapter). -Price.

Server sounds really impressive until you realize that it's just a pcie x1 slot. On the other hand, pcie x1 slot. I put it in a half size slot because it makes me not have to fight with a video card. Points up. This won't be apparent to you unless your card has ports facing another way. Get this one and save yourself a headache you will wonder why you even have.

The obvious question is why one would purchase this card over the far cheaper options. Generic 1Gbps NICs can be had for just over a tenth the cost, while Intel's desktop varieties run less than half the price of this card. Leaving aside the cheapest cards - ones I've found to cause more problems with data corruption and reliability than it's worth - the main reason to go with a server card is if you will be loading it heavily. If you're running your own datacenter, power-saving features such as EEE and DMA coalescing are handy, but that likely doesn't apply to most potential customers for this NIC. The I210T1 does an even better job at offloading calculations than previous generation NICs.Saturate a full 1Gbps connection with multiple streams and you'll see CPU usage drop in comparison to what it is with desktop cards. We put this card in a workstation to replace the on-board Realtek NIC. System CPU time dropped by 20-30% under very heavy network loads after switching to the I210T1. Another benefit to the I210T1 - and a possible reason to upgrade to this new model - is Audio Video Bridging (AVB) support. When working on projects where multiple media streams need to be perfectly synchronized, AVB worked wonders. Older NICs simply could not keep everything synced perfectly. We needed to work on 10Gbps connections instead. Being able to accomplish the same feat with a much cheaper card is great! The I210T1 is tiny. It fits easily even in systems with bulging heatsinks and video cards.

This appeared in Windows 8.1/10 to be identical to the one on my motherboard

Windows Server 2003 x64 finds the drivers right from windows update. Card performs flawlessly for creating links between servers.

- Blazing fast - Great price for 10Gb NIC... I've been waiting a long time.