Easy to install, the Realtek RTL 2185 drivers worked for me as someone stated above.
I purchased 2 of these. one to put in my desktop and the other to put in my truenas server. truenas core will not support this card. I had to update to truenas scale for it to recognize.
plug and play auto driver installation on windows 7 cheapish
-Works without dropping connection (unlike like my onboard intel wired network adapter). -Price.
The ethernet port on my motherboard died. No problem, I have an old spare network card. Uh oh, the motherboard only has PCIe slots. So I ordered this and it was delivered shortly after. Installed it, started the computer, and off we go. I didn't have to install a driver, thanks Windows 11.
This is the real deal. It comes with full and half height brackets.
Excellent performance. "Just works" in Linux, no driver installation needed. Using jumbo packets, you can saturate your gigabit network and this card will handle it just fine. Cheapo motherboard NICs don't fare well at all under this kind of use. Intel makes the best network cards, hands down.
I ordered this card for my supermicro server running PVE v7.1. I did setup SR-IOV PCIE passthrough, and it is blazingly fast!
Doubled my download speed in an inexpensive and easy to install card.
Superfast, well packaged, comes with both standard and low-profile brackets.
Works with both PFSense and Proxmox without any special configurations.
Lower cost than others of its kind. It's significantly smaller than I was expecting, and the heat sink covers every bit of usable space for exceptional cooling.
easy plug and play install did improve net speed.