ENCORE ENLGA-1320 PCI Ethernet Card

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Super affordable, does exactly what it says it does... haven't had any trouble obtaining it up to speed or anything. None I almost certainly ought to have bought three of them.

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Dropped this into a linux (Ubuntu) box and XP Household box. Each were automobile detected and worked. One point, the XP box needed to connect on the net to get the drivers. Or I could have utilized the disk, but I employed my wireless connection to let it download the most up-to-date.Fast Quick Rapidly (Make certain your switch/router handles GB)Price tag = Really Tiny :) Had to be online to load drivers on XP Residence or insert the disk... but that's no biggie. Low profile card, but no low profile bracket. Just an FYI for folks.

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does what i require it to. functions with linux none

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affordable Cannot connect at gigabit on some older computers. I run a 2001 vintage Dell P4 machine as a file server in the home and purchased this card to upgrade to a gigabit network. It shows the machine is linked at 1Gbit/s but has nearly no network activity: 75%-100% packet loss pinging the router. Immediately after studying some of the comments right here about the difficulties with the Realtek controller utilised, I went to the neighborhood personal computer retailer and at their recommendation purchased a D-Hyperlink card costing 3x significantly as this. It was able to connect and perform at 1Gbit/s on the Dell. I then hooked up the Encore card to a 2005 vintage machine with an Abit UL8 board and it connects and efficiently maintains a connection to the gigabit switch. The max speed I can get on the Encore card is about 150Mbit/s. Not positive if this card is not capable of total gigabit speeds or the bottleneck is in the PCI bus or the file technique. I took two eggs off for not getting capable to work on the older computer system exactly where a network card from a unique brand was able to operate.

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functions with Windows 7 none NEWEGG IS THE Best!!!!!

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Functions as advertised. Installed it on my old junker HP and it began operating with out me getting to do a single thing. Improved ping times by a hair, mainly just on the initial hop. The only con is that I don't have anything to complain about. For the funds you just merely can't beat this card. Has however to result in a single challenge for me, a must obtain if you have gigabit ethernet.

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Great throughput, specifically on backups and big file xfers from workstations to workstation and to a backup server. Simple set up. None I've run into Have employed these on a few modest enterprise and residence networks, no glitches thus far.

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I have this card installed in my OpenBSD router. OpenBSD picked it ideal up and I havn't had a problem with it. If it went out, I'd acquire one more a single because its nice and affordable and runs fine. I've had gigabit cards run quicker than this a single but absolutely nothing terrible. It uses the realtek re driver on OpenBSD.

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xp & ubuntu both recognize correct away, no need for drivers win server required drivers low-cost gigabite controller. worth the funds

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Cheap Doesn't perform at all with Ubuntu 10.four. I tried all the drivers I could get my hands on but the very best I could attain was 100Mb.

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low-cost troubles with 1gb throughput on some systems as some people today pointed out. In Win7 (and vista/xp likely), turning the TCP/UDP checksum offload alternatives OFF on the card appears to let it connect at 1gb speeds reliably. The card just can't appear to manage all the checksum work at gigE speeds effectively. Turning that off so the CPU does the operate appears to repair it for me.

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Gigabit Ethernet. Works out-of-the-box with Linux, as the drivers are integrated into the kernel. Quite quick. Can use Rx polling to decrease CPU load with intensive site visitors loads. Inexpensive. The drivers offered for download for older versions of Linux (kernel 2.2 or older) make it appear like dl2k (CONFIG_DL2K) is the ideal driver, but the correct driver is r8169 (CONFIG_R8169), though that was only a minor inconvenience. Despite the fact that everybody is coming out with PCI-Express NICs now, it really isn't needed in most instances. This card makes use of PCI 2.two which can run at 4264Mbps (note the lowercase 'b'), enough for 4 of these, assuming no other cards are on the PCI bus.

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Realtek is a good chip. I have plenty of cards that use them. Persons need to have to comprehend that computational overhead of TCP/IP eats into the throughput on your network just like slow hardware will. Here's an excerpt from the wikipedia post on TCP Offload:Originally TCP was designed for unreliable low speed networks (such as early dial-up modems) but with the growth of the Internet in terms of world wide web backbone transmission speeds (Optical Carrier, gigabit Ethernet and 10 gigabit Ethernet links) and more quickly and much more reputable access mechanisms (such as Digital Subscriber Line and cable modems) it is now often employed in datacenters and desktop Pc environments at speeds over 1 gigabit per second. The TCP software program implementations on host systems need extensive computing power. Complete duplex gigabit TCP communication making use of software processing alone is adequate to consume far more than 80% of a 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 processor (see Freed Up CPU Cycles), resulting in tiny or no processing resources left for the applications to run on the program. My network runs at about 175 Mbps using largely boxes with gigabit built in. That's nevertheless a marked improvement more than 100 Mb.

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Perform with Windows 7 Ultimate right out of the box None Much improvement more than my onboard ethernet which was 100 mbps

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Low-cost, worked for awhile. This card utilizes the RTL8169 chipset. Just google 8169 linux and see all of the troubles. I spent a day attempting to figure out what the dilemma was. (I really should have just carried out a search). It is buggy as all get out. It worked under XP for awhile and then failed there also. Perhaps I need to pay more than ů.99 for a nic huh?

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Cost... 30-50% packet loss on a windows xp pro machine. We have other computer systems operating fine at 1000mb speeds, good quality wireing and switching. Bought four of these to update soem 100mb machines. All for offered packet loss to neighborhood network reasources ྾%) and nicely recognized outside world wide web web-sites (about 50% loss). I guess I must have listened.... I'll go broadcom or intel based nic's from now on.

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Can't beat the price. I spend a lot more for lunch daily than it expense to upgrade my NIC to GbE. Just install it and the drivers and go. No Cons so far. I upgraded two of my XP systems. I only have a day of run time on them, but no difficulties or flaky behavior observed so far.

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Operates great in my serverhave had it operating for about a week with no complicationsxp finds the drivers no difficulty and my linux server discovered it in a snapThanks Newegg & Encore for a nice affordable product not seriously a con but the IO shield was loose when i got itnothing a screw driver couldent fix would but this item once again with out a second thought

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Extremely inexpensiveLow profile (lo-profile bracket NOT included)Installed quicklyManufacturer site unexceptional but drivers are accessible there Conflicting documentation on WOL (it doesn't appear to help it) It's low-cost and it functions. I get solid gigabit speeds. It supports jumbo frames. Some of the documentation says that it supports WOL, some documentation doesn't list this as a function. On my method, WOL doesn't seem to operate. Newegg lists it as not supporting WOL so that's fine.

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functions like it is stated, no issues however, uncomplicated install, didn't even want the cd to load drivers, Windows House Server aka Win2003 server identified drivers automatically none so far

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Easy installation of course. The cards are low-profile and they use a typical chipset so they're quickly installed in just about any OS. None that I've noticed. Utilizing both of these in a server setup. Running Ubuntu Server eight.04 under the hood and these were recognized on boot and were obtainable for use by the time the console loaded.

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Low-cost network card. This card registers with Windows and Linux (I attempted Ubuntu and Debian) as 1 gigabit, but it really transfers at only slightly more rapidly than 100 megabits. From reading other critiques, this appears like a frequent dilemma. I would steer clear of this card. Most persons review it and say its fantastic, but in no way essentially test the speed.

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The cost is the main aspect in this card not acquiring a rating of one particular. The NIC says that it supports linux but that is not the entire truth.Employing the RTL-8169 driver on Ubuntu "Hardy" I was able to achieve speeds of 200 Mbps more than CAT 5e. Immediately after tweaking I was in a position to bump that speed up to 300 Mbps by tweaking the settings.So although it is faster than 100 Mbps, it is no where close to 1 Gbps! Doesn't perform at the advertised 1 Gbps. Doesn't even get HALF of that! I am going to be purchasing an Intel based card for my server rather of this piece of junk. Bottom line, it does not operate as advertised.All tests had been performed on a 1 GB test file making use of iPerf (http://dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Iperf/) transferring a file to and from the Linux server to a Windows XP Pro client working with a D-Link DGS-2205 Switch.

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In no way attempted performance of card. Not compatible with my old Compaq Deskpro. Basically not energy up.(When installed in a far more current pc, if a network cable is attached, you can see green lights on even if the system is not booted. ) Maby it's mainly because the card is a PCI two.2 compilant and my old computes for shure does not. just disapointed that the card is not backward compatible with older pci slots. I just loosed my 10 boxes, i will attempt a different model.Simply because the low price tag of the card, it will cost me more to ship it back.