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Netgear Inc. GA311NA Network Interface Cards
Customer Reviews for NETGEAR GA311 10/ 100/ 1000Mbps PCI Gigabit Adapter with Jumbo Frame support 1 x RJ45 - Retail
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Drex
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/21/2010 2:15:39 PM

Rating + 3 At least it works


Pros: Worked out of the box on Windows 7 system and autonegotiated at 1000Mb.

Cons: While Windows 7 installs a compatible driver, the highest I can set Jumbo frames is to 7K. The other PC's I have on my gigabit network will go up to 9K. This creates a problem in that I can't match Jumbo frame size. Unless there's a way to manually set it within the registry, but doesn't necessarily mean the NIC will support it.

Other Thoughts: Need updated drivers for Windows 7.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: less than 1 day
1/15/2010 9:56:21 PM

Rating + 5 Plug and Play!!


Pros: Plug and Play! Installed it. Windows 7 recognized it immediately and automatically installed a driver. Now connected to my NETGEAR WNR3500 at 1.0 Gbps!

Cons: None

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
11/7/2009 10:23:28 PM

Rating + 2 No Gigabit in Vista or Win 7


Pros: Price, Works fine in XP or below

Cons: Will not negotiate gigabit in Windows Vista Or Windows 7.
No Current Drivers For Windows 7. And takes multiple trys to get Vista Driver to load correctly. Then Will only work at Gigabit until next reboot. Then no matter what you try will not go above 100mbs.
Talked to netgear several time, aware of issue but will not admit problem with card. No mention of new driver anytime soon

Other Thoughts: If you have or plan to upgrade to Vista or Windows 7 Avoid this card.

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belphegor
Tech Level: high
Ownership: less than 1 day
10/5/2009 10:04:07 PM

Rating + 2 An expensive 100 BaseT NIC


Pros: Reasonably priced for a 1000Mbps card... if it worked as such (please read below).

Cons: Did not work at 1000 BaseT while connected directly to a Gig-E switch. Took a long time to "negociate" a 100Mbps connection.
Updating the software / drivers is a very cumbersome process, that involves physically removing the card from the PC and re-installing it.
Neither the drivers delivered by Netgear on the CD, nor the updated ones from the Netgear webpage could make this card work at the full advertized speed.
For a 100 Base-T NIC it is too expensive.

Other Thoughts: I installed this card according to the manufacturer's instructions. Connected to the Gig-E switch, waited about a minute and the link came up at 100 bps. Tried two different cables, same result. Tried both the drivers and software that came on the CD and the updated version from the Netgear website. Still 100 bps.
By the way, updating the software is not a straight forward process either. The manufacturer's instructions state that the card needs to be un-installed in Windows and also removed physically, then re-installed in order to be able to load the new software / drivers.
Wasted a whole hour trying to make this work the way it should, to no avail.
Conclusion: The Netgear GA311 goes back where it came from.

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Turquoise24
Tech Level: average
Ownership: less than 1 day
9/29/2009 6:39:13 PM

Rating + 5 10 minutes to install


Pros: Ease of installation and price.

Cons: When I inserted the disc into XP, setup didn't run, so I had to start it manually. After installing the hardware and turning on my PC, it found two drivers but it wasn't immediately clear which one to use. FYI: use the one that says OEM.

Other Thoughts: As I said, very easy to install. Thanks to the reviewers who said it doesn't work with x64, because that made me google to find out what version of XP I use, and why it doesn't work with x64. It doesn't work with x64 b/c the cost to make a driver for it would drive up the cost of their products.

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N/A
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/15/2009 12:46:40 PM

Rating + 5 Works Great


Pros: Works with hackintosh right out of the box.

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: Newegg got it to me quick

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/4/2009 8:02:05 PM

Rating + 1 Doesn't Support Windows XP 64-bit


Pros: Works on my 5 year old server, but wasn't bought for that computer.

Cons: Netgear does not have 64bit XP driver and basically tells you to go screw yourself if you don't want to use XP 32 or Vista!!!

This is becoming a trend where people like myself with new high-end systems that don't want to use Vista turn to XP 64bit and get stuck in the rain for driver support. Take the time and write a freaking driver.

Comes up in my OS as a Realtek product. Wish it was. Maybe they write drivers for their products.

Maybe newegg should have full specs on the hardware they sell including all OS's supported since we're in a time between XP and Vista as well as 32 and 64 bit.

Other Thoughts: Was going to be a bridged network adapter for a virtual server. Now I have to buy a different card. What a waste of $$.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/26/2009 3:17:15 AM

Rating + 1 This Card STINKS!!!


Pros: Works in Vista 64

Cons: Drivers for WinXP do not work forcing you to use the older 2003 drivers which gives you 100m not 1000m. No help from Netgear support.

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sound2man
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/21/2009 11:08:23 AM

Rating + 5 Gigabit works


Pros: Upgraded our file server with this. Works great, and increaced the throughout of the server.

Cons: none

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Telo
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/8/2009 12:36:22 PM

Rating + 5 Works very well with OSx86


Pros: Only purpose I bought it for was to use it in a newly built OSx86 box. The documentation I found online said it would get recognized by OS X 10.5.6 right out of the box and it did.

Cons: None so far.

Other Thoughts: Would have liked it better if it was PCI-e instead.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/16/2009 8:07:41 AM

Rating + 5 Great card


Pros: Very good card. We use these where I work and I have so far installed 25+ with no issues. This one was for use in my personal network. Very good card and can't beat the price.

Cons: No issues at work or at home.

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the dude
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/4/2009 12:54:22 AM

Rating + 1 linux? go intel gige


Pros: Breaks Windows less?

Cons: Used for months on both Gentoo and Ubuntu. Both systems would lock up randomly under heavy file transfer with any peers. I tried to track down the bug(s) in the realtek linux drivers but got tired of unraveling the kludge.

Jumbo frame steps only a couple times before hitting the max of 7200. The board has too many capacitors, this speaks to poor hardware design where the engineers built something then wrote the drivers to fill out what they had just built.

The Intel cards I purchased to replace these things have _NO_ capacitors and they include many jumbo steppings up to 9000.

Ended up repurposing them into some windows boxes that suffer a few reboots now and then. Tough to tell if the nics are to blame though.

Other Thoughts: The Intel Pro/1000 cards are cheaper now too. The two I have now work flawlessly.

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Dustoff
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/12/2009 6:51:04 PM

Rating + 5 Great Card EZ setup


Pros: Fast , transfering at the max my hard drives can handle . Easy setup , price and super fast newegg shipping. One gig video files take less than a min to move back and forth compared to 3 mins on the old 100mb switch

Cons: None , Zip other than it now showed my weak link in the network is a few older sata 1 drives but the transfer at thier max of 150 Mb/sec

Other Thoughts: Bought three of these babies to boost the speed on my windows home server . One system was windows xp , One system was Vista 64 and of course one system was windows home server. All thre cards installed fast and the required drivers worked flawless . All drivers where in one download from netgears site

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/9/2009 10:35:47 AM

Rating + 5 EFI-X Hackintosh


Pros: Everything works great out of the box on my EFI-X hackintosh. Don't mess with onboard NIC...just by this and there wont be any hassles.

Cons: Not a real mac.

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dingo
Tech Level: high
Ownership: more than 1 year
1/18/2009 10:34:27 AM

Rating + 1 burned twice. on linux, then again on bsd


Pros: For this pci form, this seems to be the most popular chipset in the U.S. as an alternative to the intel pro 1000/gigabit extreme. A computer store with 4 brands of gigabit cards all used this same chipset. I could have purchased an intel online, but I did not because it has caused some grief, though not a terrible amount, in both linux and bsd from a pentium 4 intel server board.

The bsd re(4) driver source code points out that cards based on this chip support a limited 7k jumbo frame size, that it makes use of a tcp/ip checksum offloading, and supports large tcp packets to offload fragmenting. The last feature is fairly uncommon, yet important for good os performance with these cards. I particular revision of a pci-x broadcom card I previously used did not support the large tcp packet segmentation offloading, giving very poor performance.

Cons: There is no indication to me that the chipset design is bad, but this particular card, my second purchase of it in 2-3 years, has given me trouble each time.

I made use of my first purchase of this card on an x86 linux machine, where I experienced lock-ups and freezing when reaching 300K/s or more sustained transfer. It boggled me in that I could use the internet, capped then at a lower speed, but as soon as a sustained transfer is made, especially to the local LAN, to loose my os to a cold crash.

It was especially frustrating that ssh login performed fine. I'd rather have this card immediately freeze, not detect, etc. that clearly flags to me that this card should be returned.

Other Thoughts: I think at the time I expected spotty behavior on linux for a recently released desktop device, and decided I'd keep it around. I recall throwing it out when it caused me grief on a sparc sun netra, and decided the card was junk for a second time.

I recently purchased this card a second time. Again, I experienced lock-ups in bsd twice per day unpredictably. Switching my ethernet device to the on-board curbed lock-ups to every few days, Finally, I removed the card entirely, and it went back to running like it did when it was my old router: never freezing. ever.

It was thirty dollars at the store. I was able to get it in my hands in less than two hours, but it burned me again. damnitall.

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Jeff
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/14/2009 7:59:49 PM

Rating + 5 Easy setup, decent performance, low price


Pros: Cheap price. Super easy installation. Great compatibility.

Cons: Like some of the intel gigabit nic solutions better for performance, but that's at a high price over these. For most of the boxes and workstations, these work just fine at a fraction of the cost and deliver a reasonable performance increase over 100 mbps even if somewhat short of saturating a gigabit port.

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Kriston
Tech Level: high
Ownership: more than 1 year
12/13/2008 9:46:43 PM

Rating + 2 Extremely hot, perhaps dangerous


Pros: Excellent gigabit speeds.
Nearly every operating system has drivers for it already.

Cons: Excessively hot.
Extremely hot.
The non-Netgear clone versions of this card actually have heat sinks attached to them.
They are really hot. I am worried about using them.
They run hot enough to put first-degree burns on your fingers.

Other Thoughts: Did I mention these run hot?
You should train a fan a glue a heatsink on them.
Otherwise they are fast.

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Whiplash
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
11/14/2008 4:23:49 AM

Rating + 5 Sweet gigabit NIC


Pros: Inexpensive gigabit NIC
Works great with Windows Server 2003 (use the Windows XP driver)

Cons: Windows wants to use the NetGear GA511 driver by default (which is also on the included driver CD), which does not work with this card (the GA311). I just had to select the NetGear GA311 driver from the list and then it was fine. No big deal.

Other Thoughts: This card does not seem to link up @ 1Gb until Windows actually loads the driver (i.e. when you first power up the PC it'll link @ 100Mb, then once the Windows desktop comes up, it jumps to 1Gb). I thought that was odd, but it doesn't affect connectivity or throughput. I figured I'd share it because I thought I had a cable issue until I let Windows boot all the way up. Works great with the NetGear GS108 gigabit switch: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833122111

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: more than 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
11/4/2008 1:30:31 PM

Rating + 4 Pretty good


Pros: Worked well for the many years I owned it (before selling my computer).

Cons: None.

Other Thoughts: Network transfer speed seemed slower than it should be, but that may have been a software/router issue.

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Jon
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/22/2008 1:39:52 PM

Rating + 3 Vista.....


Pros: Easy to install. Instructions were straightforward but computer response was not according to instructions.

Cons: Get error message and repeated pop-up whenever I reboot the pc now.

Manufacturer Response:Your description of the problem sounds like it may be a warning from "Microsoft Digital Signature not found", which is normal for most Netgear drivers because they don't go through Microsoft's database. If that's the case, our instructions are to click "Continue Anyway" when prompted, then the driver will then install properly.

Here's a link to our latest driver, released 7/14/08.
http://kbserver.netgear.com/release_notes/d103322.asp

We want to ensure you have a positive experience, so if this doens't address your problem, or there's other issues at hand, please contact Netgear Support at 888-NETGEAR : 888-638-4327.

Thank You,
Netgear Support

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Pauly
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/8/2008 10:24:10 PM

Rating + 5 Great Gigabit Nic


Pros: Excellent nic card. Low profile design will fit even the smallest form factor. Supports jumbo frames.

What is jumbo frames you ask? For devices that support jumbo frames you can set the MTU from the standard 1500 bytes to 7500 bytes. Netgear list the maximum jumbo frame as 7500 for the GA311NA. I set mine to 9500 bytes.

What is so special about jumbo frames? A normal 10/100 nic card has a maximum MTU of 1500 bytes. When you increase the MTU size to 7500 bytes on the GA311NA. Each data packet can roughly carry about 5 times the amount of data as a regular data packet on a standard nic. Do the math 7500 / 1500 = 5

I bought two of these nic cards. My router and switch does not support jumbo frames. I had to use a crossover cable with static ip addresses set, since no DHCP server was between my two desktop computers. I had to set the interface metric to 1 on the source computer so the data I transfered would use the GA311NA nic instead of my second 10/100 nic.

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: I always use Newegg reviews to research any hardware, before I purchase. Newegg is the best!!!

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Nimdae
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/12/2008 3:25:33 PM

Rating + 4 Fast and simple


Pros: Very quick, works well in Ubuntu server. I seem to be able to use it at full speed without too much trouble.

Cons: Had some trouble configuring it in Ubuntu, but overcame the trouble eventually.

Other Thoughts: Being used in an old PC being used as a server. I think the hard drive is the bottleneck in most of my high bandwidth usage. I do get speeds above 100mbit to me it is a good investment.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: less than 1 day
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/1/2008 4:54:12 PM

Rating + 5


Pros: Works great. Right out of the box. No surprises on XP anyways....

Cons: none

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Akira
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
7/22/2008 8:12:21 AM

Rating + 5 Easy install, surprisingly good software


Pros: Installation is a cinch; mine was installed on an XP machine. The instructions said to install the software first, then shut down and insert the card. Once rebooted, the card was recognized by XP, and when prompted, I told windows to automatically look for the drivers - which it found without fail.

Cons: None to speak of.

Other Thoughts: The driver installation includes System Tray software that is a more technical version of Windows' own connection icon. It tells the data in and out, speed, MAC address, etc. I don't know if this can be disabled, so if you don't clutter in your Sys Tray, take this into consideration.

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Rando
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/2/2008 3:48:58 PM

Rating + 4


Pros: It is fast!

Cons: I had to go download the correct, latest driver for XP and play with it to get it to work. Once I had everything configured correctly, it worked.

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Silent Menace
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
5/22/2008 8:37:11 PM

Rating + 1 Poor Vista support


Pros: Forced me to buy a better card.

Cons: Very poor Vista 64 bit support. The drivers for this nic are old and cause blue screening, S3 sleep problems and network failures.

Other Thoughts: Maybe on XP this card would be great but on Vista Ultimate 64 it was nothing but headaches.

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jokono
Tech Level: high
Ownership: more than 1 year
5/5/2008 3:45:44 PM

Rating + 2 Not for Linux


Pros: Cheap. Pretends to work, but then...

Cons: Based on the RealTek 8169 chip. The driver in the Linux kernel kind of works, but unreliably. So, RealTek supplies their own tarball source download. Each time I upgraded the kernel, I would rebuild the driver and install it. But, the problem is the driver will not build against the 2.6.24 kernel source. Realtek has yet to address this. Solution: I bought the Intel NIC (offered here at newegg for a great price) to ensure compatibility and reliability.

Other Thoughts: This is not, I suppose, Netgear's fault. It's their chip vendor's. I don't know if this is a GPL thing with realtek's driver, but they seriously need to get with the program.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/13/2008 6:42:20 PM

Rating + 5 Great Network Card


Pros: Put this card in 3 of my home base PC's and worked instantly. Mating up with the Netgear ProSafe 8 Port Gigabit Smart Switch (GS108T) My network with these older PC's Flies! I have 2 newer Machines with intergrated Gig's in them. My 2 daughters love having the ability to share all the Music, Movies, and Data between each other. Itunes, on each of the computers,is configured to pull from the main server so everyone can have the most up to date music that I load.

Cons: None Whatsoever!

Other Thoughts: Just remember. Your disk speed makes a difference. Whether you have IDE 133 or Sata 3.0. Sometimes my network is going at 30 Mbs, than sometimes its at 9 Mbs. Also depends what my kids are doing on their computers at the time.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: more than 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/11/2008 10:31:25 PM

Rating + 5 excellent card!


Pros: had this card in one system for over 1 year now and its been working flawlesly! not a singl problem whatsoever, expect that i was wondering why th heck i wasnt getting gb speed then after looking over my cabling i noticed the cable i had was a cat 5 not 5e stupid me!. so i bought 2 more of these cards from newegg

Cons: the only con i have is that its my fault 5 months ago i bought a cheaper nic card for 20 bucks to svae some cash back then this nic was forty bucks. and of course to know it the cheap card failed.

Other Thoughts: Bottom line whenever you buy hardware equipment like this you have to go with quality stuff and for the price of this card compared to other cheper ones this is by far the best bang for your buck especially with how quick newegg process the order. Good Job Newegg! i placed another order today saturday for next day air delivery of course i dont expet it to come before tuesday. but im one happy customer.

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robh
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/11/2008 10:22:01 PM

Rating + 5 Great unit Great SUPPORT!


Pros: Its a NAS box and it works the way it should. Netgear support was great about everything. dont call the regular support line for this item they have a dedicated support team in the U.S. eight six six two five two nine nine two one takes you directly to the negear support reps. they are absolutly awesome. Hardly makes sound at all. You would think the fan would more loud than what it is, but its so low i cant even hear it at night when i sleep 10ft away

Cons: If not for getting to this support dept i would not of bought this unit. The outsourced reps are horrible to deal with let alone hear them trying to speak english.
As ofr the unit itself i have nothing bad to say it worked right out of the box upgraded the ram to 1gb when purchased from newegg part# N82E16820134186. the firmware HAS to be upgraded before you do anything call tech support they will help you. small issue with symantec backupexec but there is a simple work around.

Other Thoughts: the firmware is a bit confusing at first but once you get in there and get your hands dirty and of course with the help of netgear support youll figure it out like everyhting else. its not that hard, but you will need someone form netgear to explain it.

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Furlow
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
3/14/2008 5:11:08 PM

Rating + 4 Not to bad but not that grat


Pros: I have been able to achieve speeds of about 26-33MB/s over ssh and NFS which is fairly good. Samba to windows has relatively slower speeds in the range of 10MB/s. Windows to windows sees about 20-25MB/s.I used the newest drivers for Linux off Realtek's website. Many people claim the card to be the problem whereas it is probably the hard drives(PATA) if it happens with SATA to SATA then the card is the problem.

Cons: The speed is only about 1/4 of the full speed it should be able to achieve.

Newer drivers work better but still not best speeds, documentation for Linux drivers is outdated even in the new drivers on realtek's website.

Other Thoughts: I figured out that in my setup the bottleneck is not the switch not the PCI bus and i think i put it down to my IDE hard drives, I have two SATA150s in the other PC and will take one out and test it in the other PC so it is SATA to SATA and not PATA to SATA, this will tell me finally whether or not is the card that is simply just slower than advertised I still wont feel ripped off as i got 3 of these for $37(not from newegg but i can not say where as this would be against the terms) and speeds are way higher than 100MB/s. I hope this will help you in finding the right NIC.

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Kaleb.G
Tech Level: average
Ownership: more than 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/28/2008 12:59:25 PM

Rating + 5 over 3 years and still running strong


Pros: I've had this for over three years and have yet to encounter any problem with it.

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: I haven't done any rigorous testing on max throughput for LAN connections, but it certainly handles my speedy Internet connection just fine.

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Kishkumen
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
2/25/2008 4:00:58 PM

Rating + 1 Less than satisfied


Pros: It's blue?

Cons: Gone through several cards on several machines and have yet to get one to work properly

Other Thoughts: We've been trying to get these cards working in our software testing department, and have yet to get one that has worked properly. These have been tested on 5+ machines using 4 different cards we had ordered. We will be sending them back and getting Intel cards from now on.

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Cabby
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
2/13/2008 1:16:48 PM

Rating + 1 If you have a Dell and Vista - dont get this!


Pros: Cheap

Cons: Does not work in Dell computers running Vista, which would be a lot of people. Maybe one day...

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SHNOOL
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/28/2007 8:41:06 PM

Rating + 4 NETGEARs easy GIGABIT


Pros: IT manager, needed gigabit for non-gigabit desktop motherboard (I mean why do they even make those anymore)... whatever... Bought this because it was cheap, and needed PCI. Works well...

Cons: VISTA 64 bit, needed a reboot, and a gigabit switch-port change to move the device from 100-1000. Could be my ancient 3Com gigabit switch though.

Other Thoughts: Driver DISK? Why? download the latest drivers from Netgear (better idea anyway).. Install on VISTA (yeah, no magic driver on VISTA), and viola' instant gigabit just add umm... electrons.

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m00f
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/7/2007 6:53:28 AM

Rating + 5 Excellent for the price


Pros: Cheap, easy to install, works as stated.

Cons: None.

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mcl1008
Tech Level: high
Ownership: more than 1 year
12/1/2007 6:49:27 AM

Rating + 4


Pros: Installed device and drivers and worked right away. Very easy to set up. Fantastic transfer speed.

Cons: No wake-on-LAN feature.

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Jamie
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
11/25/2007 9:42:11 PM

Rating + 3 Not quite gigabyte, not quite AT ALL


Pros: They work ok when the right drivers are used (in Windows).

Cons: Your PC ends up doing all the work. (CPU utilization will spike dramatically!) So don't try to play games and transfer files at the same time. ;-)

In a test transferring 37GB from one computer to another using GA311's on both PC's, cat 6e cable, and a Netgear 8-port Gigabit hub in the middle, averaged 245Mb/s according to Netgear's own (and very neat) little driver chart. That's only 1/4 the rated speed. Gigabit traffic with no collisions should be close to 95%, or around 950Mb/s. In fact, I've achieved 980Mb/s at work using gigabit cards, and that was on a larger (also switched) network. (For reference, the 8 port Netgear switch I'm using is non-blocking and has an internal bus that runs at 16Gb/s, so that's not the bottleneck either.)

Thus, these cards are not fast at all, but they are slightly more than 2.5x faster than a 100Mb/s card. Still, for the same price, you can get a faster card that works well in Linux, too!

Other Thoughts: Also, for newbies: unless you have a Gigabit connection to the Internet (hah!), using a gigabit connection in your home will only help you when transferring files BETWEEN your own computers on your LAN, NOT improve your speeds to the Internet. Most likely you have a four or five Mb/s connection. If so, even an old 10Mb/s plain old ethernet connection is plenty fast.

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Alex
Tech Level: high
Ownership: more than 1 year
11/22/2007 11:03:53 AM

Rating + 4 Overall Excelent Performance


Pros: I own 6 of these cards for windows and linux systems. As stated in previous reviews the linux drivers are lacking. My linux file server refused to transfer at over 20 Megs/sec SMB until I upgraded from Suse 10.2 to 10.3 and now peaks at over 40. In 100 mbps mode it is significantly more responsive then regular 100 mbps cards.

Cons: Inconsistent linux performance. Dont be the first person using your distro to buy this card. Performance WILL vary.

Other Thoughts: Ipcop drivers suck. Suse 10.3 drivers are excellent.

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Yomibro
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
11/15/2007 7:11:20 AM

Rating + 5 Excellent NIC card


Pros: Simple to install and setup, does come with drivers for Vista 64-bit

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: Got this card because my motherboard Nvidia NIC card was flaky, this one connects every single time without any issues.

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Lloyd Technologies
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/29/2007 12:20:21 PM

Rating + 5 Great cards good value


Pros: great card thats easy to install and headache free.

Cons: none

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stevo
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
10/22/2007 8:33:56 PM

Rating + 5 Works well


Pros: This works as well as any nic card on the market in the $15-$40 range. Best of all, it works just as good on my Vista 32-bit system as it did for me on XP. A nic card is a cheap way to setup a small home network with file sharing and this card (so far) has done the job well and it is easy to install and set up

Cons: Can't think of any

Other Thoughts: Works with vista and it costs under #30.

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AK
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
10/15/2007 7:36:34 PM

Rating + 5 Blazing fast


Pros: Speed, no problems with setup

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: 350mb file transfer took 24 sec. Same file with older 100mb NIC was chewed 4 minutes. Computers connected to gigabit switch by cat6 cables.

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TraitorJackKnives
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
10/15/2007 3:38:43 PM

Rating + 5 Great NIC


Pros: I noticed faster transfer the minute I installed it, as well as lower pings. In my opinion it is definitely worth buying.

Cons: None to this day.

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Apoc
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/6/2007 3:01:06 PM

Rating + 4


Pros: netgear always has good quality products. drivers installed easily(i manually installed them rather than using the included executable)

Cons: stopped working after a reboot; but switched it to another PCI slot and no problems since.

Other Thoughts: didn't connect with the switch at gigabit speeds until the drivers were installed.

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akai11
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
10/2/2007 1:42:18 PM

Rating + 5 Netgear GA311


Pros: Excellent, reliable, stable. No problems whatsoever, except for cross-platform drivers.

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: Netgear makes quality products.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/2/2007 11:19:45 AM

Rating + 5 Works Great


Pros: The card works as advertised.

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: great if you need a second NIC for something

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elcharlie
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/26/2007 11:09:03 PM

Rating + 5 Solid product


Pros: Inexpensive, high quality product

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: Netgear is a pretty decent manufacturer of network products. Highly recommended.

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chuckwits
Tech Level: high
Ownership: less than 1 day
9/15/2007 6:56:54 PM

Rating + 5 Vista support-unlike some other cards


Pros: I must admit that I do not own this card. I found out that my current Linksys card doesn't offer drivers for Windows Vista, and apparently doesn't plan to in the future either, so I decided to go looking for other options since I am going to upgrade to Vista. From what I've seen so far, this card (and company) is a winner!

Cons: None

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/2/2007 3:54:16 PM

Rating + 4 good gig NIC


Pros: Very good speed and reliability. Great price for a durable gig network interfact card. Server 2003 network load balancing supports this card.

Cons: Drivers were a bit awkward to instal. Default drivers in Server 2003 didn't take, drivers on disc were a bit elusive.

Other Thoughts: Also tried this on Windows 2000 Advanced Server. Had to download drivers and utility for that. But it works great once correctly administered.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
8/29/2007 3:45:48 AM

Rating + 4 Good, maybe


Pros: Inexpensive gbit, works under the right OS/driver

Cons: Link speed determined by the driver, not auto-sensing

Other Thoughts: The std Ubuntu 7.06 driver set this card to 10Mb, OpenSUSE 10.2 set it to 100Gb, Windows XP set it to 100Gb.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/28/2007 8:39:08 PM

Rating + 5 Awesome


Pros: Does what it says

Cons: Drivers are a bit confusing several duplicated directories on the cd

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/22/2007 7:03:48 PM

Rating + 5 Works great


Pros: It works better then my onboard LAN

Cons: none

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axel_2078
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
8/15/2007 10:44:24 AM

Rating + 4 not bad


Pros: Card works very well. Noticeably faster than my on-board 10/100 NIC.

Cons: Drivers can be finicky. The first time I installed it on my computer, it was a breeze. When I later reformatted my computer and tried to install the driver back on, it wouldn't take. I had to let windows "install drivers automatically" to get it to find the right driver and load. Not sure why.

Other Thoughts: Overall, not a bad card for the price. I plan on getting another one soon.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/13/2007 5:23:49 AM

Rating + 5


Pros: Works fine in my Dell Dimension. It's has decent performance for a decent price.

Cons: none

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Ascendancy
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
7/16/2007 8:01:01 AM

Rating + 4 Good Product


Pros: Works great for streaming media to the PS3 and X360. Works at very high speeds.

Cons: Drivers were a bit of a pain to access and install.

Other Thoughts: Works fine on an Acer E380, you may have issues installing it on a Dell Dimension 4600i though.

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Ojintennou
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
7/8/2007 5:28:57 PM

Rating + 4 Decent improvment.


Pros: Upgraded from a standered 10/100 realtek card and right away noticed a differnce. Might not be the greatest card on the planet but more than enough for anyone.

Cons: Nothing.

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patches-4-less.com
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
7/2/2007 4:52:35 PM

Rating + 4


Pros: Works great with Vista had no trouble installing and getting this up and running

Cons: Self switching

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Doke
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
6/22/2007 11:49:04 AM

Rating + 3 works but have to use old driver on xp


Pros: gigabit, cheap, works on both Linux and XP

Cons: There are two versions of the Windows driver, 5 and 6. 5 (also called "initial release") works fine. 6 doesn't work at all on XP Pro SP2, it won't even load. The CD only had 6 on it, I had to download 5 (while running under Linux) from their site.

Other Thoughts: They make it very hard to submit support requests.

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pianopete
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/9/2007 11:00:55 AM

Rating + 5


Pros: Excellent quality, easy installation, it works.

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: With a Win2K machine I did have a conflict with my ATI video card for some unknown reason. However, after updating the drivers for the video card, problem solved. Everything worked as it should.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
5/5/2007 10:03:26 AM

Rating + 2 not quite as advertised


Pros: none

Cons: Runs really hot for no reason. consumes a lot of cpu resorces. does not get gig speeds during large file transfers.

Other Thoughts: buy a namebrand card

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Daniel
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
3/29/2007 3:28:34 PM

Rating + 2 Linux performance is bad


Pros: Price, but I got what i paid for

Cons: Purchased for use with iscsi target and source. Average about 6-10mb x-fer rates. Not very happy, as its al netgear, nics and switch.

Other Thoughts: Dont buy this card, it does run too hot, and doesnt perform well on commmon platforms.

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tremor
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/29/2007 6:22:51 AM

Rating + 5 GREAT!


Pros: Would not post the first try. Thought it was the board, but I received a bad piece of memory. After that was fixed, everything worked great!!

Cons: Don't like it that the SATA drives show as a add/remove hardware device in windows.

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Paul
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
3/26/2007 8:14:48 PM

Rating + 1 Hot and horrible on Linux


Pros: Works fine under windows. Transfer speeds are what you would expect when using cat5e cable or better with a gigabit switch to a gigabit capable source. However, thats not the OS I bought it for...

Cons: Horrible SMB performance under linux using either realtek's 1.05 driver or the one in the 2.6.19 series kernel. Do not get this card if you plan to use it on linux.

Other Thoughts: This card runs extremely HOT! Heat + electronics = low lifspan. This is a good example of a high volume, low quality product. I'm disappointed Netgear.

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arth1
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: more than 1 year
3/18/2007 9:52:14 AM

Rating + 2 Buggy chipset


Pros: Cheap. Allows for setting jumbo frames (limited, but still).

Cons: Uses Realtek 8169 chipset. Beware that rt8169 drivers for Linux cause extreme slowness for SMB/CIFS traffic -- speed deteriorates to 10-20 Mbps range. This is a known problem with RT8169 based cards. Vendor's proprietary drivers won't work with newer kernels, so that won't help either.

Other Thoughts: Avoid unless you run Windows. I bought two of these, but after upgrading Linux and old vendor drivers no longer worked, they're so slow as to be useless. Even when running Windows, caveat emptor, as Vista 64 support may be shaky too.

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ROD
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
3/17/2007 11:38:22 AM

Rating + 5 good card


Pros: Well works great for me on Linux Slack 11 does what is says!!!

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: I see other people saying that it does not play well on WIndows but what do you want ??? its windows
:)

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bproven
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/14/2007 6:33:59 PM

Rating + 1 Unreliable


Pros: Supports 10/100/1000MB

Cons: Vista Support is buggy
Support is horrible
No drivers since initial release
Slow performance

Other Thoughts: Since replacing my old 100MB on our server with this card I have had nothing but problems. Computer Browser and other issues all pointing to poor network health on a small 10 node network! Stay away.

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Kista
Tech Level: high
Ownership: more than 1 year
3/13/2007 5:50:55 PM

Rating + 5 Kista's Review


Pros: This has been a good nic for me so I bought another one for a second computer. I need to get another one or two of these and I'll be set. I also bought the gs108 switch to go along with these and it's been wonderfull.

Cons: Not really a con but I belive this thing only works in pci v2.2+ and I tried to install into an older computer that the only cards that I have will work are 10base t which is 10mb/sec so I wanted to see if it would work but I belive the pII 233mhz has pci v2.1, the nic installs fine with the drivers off the cd and appears to be working normally but winipcfg will not work and the nic works in all my other machines so it is not the adapters fault.

Other Thoughts: I have my eye on here at another brand's nic that is 10/100 that is pci v2.1 compatible. I love the ga311 and will def. buy more as my needs grow. I will also be buying another switch in the near future most likely another gs108.

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radink
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
3/8/2007 6:44:25 AM

Rating + 1 Card is garbage


Pros: No pros.

Cons: Everytime I plug in the ethernet cable to this card, it makes my computer blue screen. Had no problems with the machine until I used this card.

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Tony
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/19/2007 3:59:43 PM

Rating + 3 Good for everything but Vista


Pros: This is a solid product for all of the reasons everyone else mentions.

Cons: But on Vista, there are no adequate drivers. I encountered BSODs when using this card with the drivers that were installed automatically with Windows, the only drivers currently available.

Other Thoughts: This card may become supported again in the future on Vista, but for now, it cannot be used reliably in Vista.

You may safely ignore this caveat if you are using this device with XP. Others also install successfully on Linux.

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Vik
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/18/2007 12:48:00 PM

Rating + 5 320mbit xfer rate seen


Pros: Built a new system with gbit Enet on motherboard so decided to update 2 older systems with the GA311 and connect all together with a gbit switch. Max xfer rate seen was between a XP 3000+ system and the new X2 4200+ system, 320mBit/sec. Probably hard drive limited.

Cons: none

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cozog
Tech Level: high
Ownership: more than 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/2/2007 6:34:03 AM

Rating + 5 I love these little suckers!


Pros: Fast and reliable.

Cons: None.

Other Thoughts: I now have three of these and I'm about to get a fourth.

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EricH
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
1/21/2007 11:53:55 PM

Rating + 5 Works well


Pros: Was detected and runs at full speed in ClarkConnect. A nice upgrade for my router.

Cons: Nope alway have been happy with NETGEAR

Other Thoughts: I put it in my ClarkConnect dual-wan router as the lan nic and runs perfect.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/31/2006 10:28:27 AM

Rating + 5 Awesome


Pros: This card is amazing, I now have a 1000Mb connection to my server; copying files takes 1/10th the time . I copied an entire 120 GB HDD in like 20 minutes.

Cons: none

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/11/2006 11:41:53 AM

Rating + 5 Good Card


Pros: Card is fast, price is great, and quick setup and config.
This card DOES work with Server 2003, however you have to download the Realtek 8169 drivers.

Cons: None really. Netgear support could be a little better.

Other Thoughts: The price is worth what you get.

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PGK
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
11/30/2006 7:14:22 PM

Rating + 5


Pros: This is a pretty fair card, especially for the price. It has the ubiquitous Realtek 8169 gigabit Ethernet I/O chip in it, which is well supported under Linux. This card is pretty fast as well for a PCIe card.

Cons: It would be nice if the card were a PCI Express x1 card instead of a PCI card as most motherboards today have a lot of the PCIe x1 slots and not very many PCI slots.

Other Thoughts: You plug it in and it works- what else really is there to say?

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ProperCC
Tech Level: average
Ownership: less than 1 day
This user purchased this item from Newegg
11/25/2006 8:27:07 PM

Rating + 1 DOES NOT WORK ON WINDOWS 2003 SERVER


Pros: none

Cons: Do not buy this NIC if your planning to put it in Windows 2003 server. It does not work.

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NoMoreNetgear
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
11/19/2006 10:15:08 PM

Rating + 1 GRRRR


Pros: They are inexpensive and Gigbit

Cons: They sure don't last that long.

Power failures kill them faster than RAID on Crickets!

Other Thoughts: Awhile back I purchased 3 GA311 cards and I was happy as a clam. They were the right price and Gigabit. Well today the last of the 3 finally died!!! I have had them for less than a year and they are all toast. Each card died after a power failure. The first went after the local power company had an hour long blackout. The 2nd died while a storm was blinking the power on and off. The 3rd died after my machine crashed and a BSOD had forced me to hit the power switch on the power supply. UGGH! Don't even bother. The first 2 deaths were understandable but the 3rd was on a machine that has a UPS battery backup. If the netgear GA311 can't handle anything other than a graceful power down I don't want em!!!

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skippy
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
11/9/2006 1:29:12 AM

Rating + 5 great basic giga-nic


Pros: Great card for the price. If you need a Gigabit card without the server-class features or wake-on-lan, this seems to be a good one so far. Works fine in a Dell PE 600SC, which is very finicky about PCI card support -- the built-in Intel Giga-nic stopped working at 1000Mbps so I popped this card in, and it's back to blazing giga-speeds on my network.

Cons: None for the price.

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Omaha Computer Techs
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/1/2006 8:59:07 PM

Rating + 5 Netgear PCI


Pros: Works as advertised no issues. Great Price

Cons: None

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Cloud819
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
8/17/2006 4:30:35 PM

Rating + 5 Love them, Linux supports them.


Pros: Great speed
Will run at 10, 100 or 1000 well
Linux support
Low cost, why go 10/100 when this is only a few dollars more
Netgear makes solid products

Cons: Linux driver works, but fails to regester link going up or down when cable is unplugged, not a real issue, just odd. Perhaps more driver devlopment will solve this.

Other Thoughts: Great card for the cash. If you are looking at the FA311 (a great product as well) pay the couple of bucks extra and go for this card; Might as well. These things even make great cheap server Gig-E cards, though they do lack the advanced features true server class cards have.

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Comptech
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
8/11/2006 10:06:11 PM

Rating + 5 Works with Blue White Powermac G3


Pros: I was looking for a gig nic to install in my blue white G3 powermac. This works with the mac G3 it doesnt come with the drivers since its for pc. But if you go to the realtek website you can download the os9 and osx drivers for this nic.

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: Good combo price.

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george
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
8/11/2006 3:17:14 PM

Rating + 5 Netgear GA311 great card


Pros: Worked great right out of the box. Just follow the instructions.

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: For all the folks bad mouthing this produce I have to wonder what they are doing. We are running a dozen or more of these cards over CAT5, CAT5e and CAT6 and they all run at a GIG.

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george
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
8/11/2006 3:05:58 PM

Rating + 5 Netgear GA311 great card


Pros: Worked great right out of the box. Just follow the instructions.

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: For all the folks bad mouthing this produce I have to wonder what they are doing. We are running a dozen or more of these cards over CAT5, CAT5e and CAT6 and they all run at a GIG.

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Oracle741
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/5/2006 3:42:03 AM

Rating + 5 quality


Pros: gets the job done. No fuss, no quirks. As always installation software/directions far exceed all other makers of similar products.

Cons: none seen.

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phil
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
7/25/2006 3:06:38 PM

Rating + 1 Nice 10/100 NIC but NOT gigabit ! ! !


Pros: Had a Brand Name behind it, but ...
Cost more than the "someone else's" NIC
Worked worse than the "someone else's NIC"

Really sold me on "someone else's" NIC's, I now have 4 of them and no Netgear (read on)

Cons: Only runs at 10/100

This confirmed by their own Netgear GS105 Gigabit switch purchased same order.

Advice, look around at Newegg and buy the "someone else's" NIC, I can't put the name here but it clocks at 1000 and costs a lot less as of this writing.

Too late for me, spent 3 weeks upgrading cables to Cat 6, etc. Threw away packaging so this "not-a-gigabit" wanabee NIC from Netgear is going in the trash can, can't be returned.

Other Thoughts: Couldn't get past 1st base with Netgear tech support. Only comment could get from them was "register the product and we can talk".

Seriously, register a $15 malfunctioning component to be able to talk about it? No signs of intelligent life there.

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Blanddragon
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/27/2006 8:27:16 AM

Rating + 5 FAST!!!


Pros: As advertised a gigabit connection.

Cons: You don't really need to use the enclosed driver disk.

Other Thoughts: 4 PCs each with one of these and my GS108 switch...Gigabit networks are HOT!

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/26/2006 11:00:17 PM

Rating + 5


Pros: Works with no problems. Easy to install.

Cons: None.

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vttech
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
6/14/2006 12:46:18 PM

Rating + 5 WORKS GREAT


Pros: FAST, EASY TO INSTALL

Cons: NONE

Other Thoughts: WORKS GREAT. WE USE NETGEAR BECAUSE OF SUPPORT AND QUALITY.

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synapsix
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
5/12/2006 8:30:10 PM

Rating + 3 works


Pros: 1000Mbps

Cons: none so far

Other Thoughts: good for a low end nic

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sfx
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/8/2006 11:45:55 AM

Rating + 5 Good gigabit NIC


Pros: Easy install comes with software to monitor the NIC status. Had no problems installing under windows xp. Easy jumbo packets setup.

Cons: None really, Can't ask for better performance from a 32 bit PCI card.

Other Thoughts: I bought two of these and the netgear gs108 gigabit switch. Haven't had a single problem. Noticed significant speed jump from 100mbit linksys switch.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: more than 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/22/2006 12:53:24 PM

Rating + 5


Pros: great card last long time still haven't killed it and once you good to 1000 you will never want anything els has made me a fan of netgear stuff

Cons: none that i have found, but if it doesn't work at 1000 in lynx that might be bad

Other Thoughts: i got a 1000 5 port switch,witch is allso netgear and works great as well i wish i could find a desently priced router for gbit and or with wireless too

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Linuxman
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
3/4/2006 9:05:24 PM

Rating + 5 Supported by Linux


Pros: Good linux support. Works great on my Gentoo Linux machine.

Cons: None that I've run into

Other Thoughts: The linux drivers for this card are readily available and included in the kernel. The reviewer that said that there is no support did not configure his kernel to support rtl8169 network cards. My friend has used this with Ubuntu and it worked out of the box.

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Speedsoft.com
Tech Level: high
Ownership: more than 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/25/2006 3:38:59 PM

Rating + 5 Dependable


Pros: We use only Netgear networking products for our IT clients. When you take your existing network to a Gigabit network with a matching Netgear Gigabit switch, you'll be amazed and the speedup of the network.

Cons: none

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ThunderHammer
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/14/2006 9:12:08 PM

Rating + 1 does not support linux


Pros: probably works fine on windows

Cons: This card does not directly support linux. Drivers are available, but somehow it only runs in 100M mode. Who buys a 1000M card to run it in 100M mode? nobody.

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Howie
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/21/2005 9:51:32 AM

Rating + 1 HORRIBLE


Pros: Easy installation, no problem here.

Cons: BAD card, max out around 14 mbyte/sec. HORRIBLE! SLOWER THAN MY WIRELESS NETWORK!!!! and latest driver on this guy is dated 10/9/2003. I have loved netgear, but on this one.. I will have to say Netgear failed me.

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TandonMiir
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
12/4/2005 5:43:34 PM

Rating + 5 Does its job.


Pros: Does its job well without having to load the computer with third-party controller software or any hassles.

Cons: None so far.

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Lloyd Technologies
Tech Level:
Ownership:
10/19/2005 7:08:13 AM

Rating + 5


Comments: Good cards that are half height compatible, but they don't come with the half height adapter.

Jonathan Morirs.

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Pauly
Tech Level:
Ownership:
10/17/2005 8:43:31 PM

Rating + 5 Netgear GA311


Comments: This Gigabit network cards work great. Newegg is an awsome company. Keep up the good work!

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Hawkhunter
Tech Level:
Ownership:
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/17/2005 12:10:44 PM

Rating + 5 Works fine...


Comments: I had this Installed and Up and running in just afew minutes..had to restart the Puter and the Modem a few times..but now its great!!

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