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Loaded into a clean Win7 install, added drive supplied on disk an thed card fired right up. Then did a Win10 upgrade to the PC without incident.

Plugged into older Alienware R7 that only had gigabit on-board, just worked and at full speed.

I was instantly able to take advantage of my new 2000mbps internet service.

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.

Fast as heck in team mode on Windows Server 2016

Works in any size PCI-Express slot despite its small size. Intel's PRO Set driver suite allows for detailed customization of features.

Sleek, has a great weight to it, reliable, we'll built and we'll made. I tested this product on my new macbook without a Ethernet port, lightning fast connectivity compared to the built in wireless. I'd recommend using a monoprice (add-on item) cat6 cable to your switch, wall or router. Very impressed. A lot of these new laptops, dell's, apple, hp, are standardizing on USB c 3.1 reversible connectors. As far as I can tell nobody can match Startech quality and power. I'd recommend also any traveller to put this in their breifcase for hotels and conferences to get high throughput relaiable gigabit Ethernet speeds. Support solid product, highly recommended. . Another great Star Tech product.

-Works perfectly without any fuss, just popped it in, installed the drivers, and restarted. Windows recognized it as an Intel i226. -Black slot cover matches my black case, which is nice

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