
Windows 10 Pro support VLANS Jumbo Frames More ports than i could ever use.

Has full and half height bracket Card is super fast Very stable


Great Product, Great Speeds, Easy to Configure, No Licensing

-Whisper quite -Many Features -Web GUI or phone app to manage it -You have to know what your doing or at least read the manual.



Fits in a small x1 pci-e port. Has 4 gigibit connections. Can be teamed. Great driver support from intel.






* Nice compact form factor * Included power adapter option is nice * Even nicer is being able to power it off PoE - one less wire/plug socket to deal with * Integrates well with the UniFi Network app, showing what devices are connected to it



Super easy setup. Plenty of POE ports.

Used on a gigabit network that runs at max network capacity 24/7. Hasn't even coughed yet. 100% uptime.

Inexpensive on sale; really inexpensive if rebate comes through. Low power gigabit switch. And VLAN support, which was a trigger. Only 5 ports, but that was sufficient, just, for what I needed.

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.