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Netgear GA311 10/100/1000 Gigabit PCI Adapter
- £14.42ex vat
- £16.95inc vat
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- manufacturer #: GA311GE
- quickfind code: 60013
- 980 in stock for next day delivery.
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Great on WinXP / Win2003 Enterprise
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Windows XPYep, what a nice card. It provides me with the full gigabit it says it will.
Windows XP / Server 2003 don't have any drivers, so you must use the CD for that. I wouldn't bother installing the throughput utility though.
Note: It can operate in a 32-Bit PCI slot as well as a 64-Bit one.
Also, to use this card on Windows Server 2003 (all editions) you use the Windows XP drivers.
To get a gigabit, you MUST have at least a CAT5E UTP cable, but I recommend getting CAT6 STP to enforce it. I'm guessing why most of the reviewers are only getting 65 or whatever, BAD CABLE!
Does what it says at a kool price!
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Windows 2000Bought a pair of these & a Netgear GS605 gigabit switch to upgrade my SOHO network from 100Mbit to gigabit. These NICs Installed like a breeze under both Win2000server & XPpro (as per instruction - ran CD to install drivers & monitoring utility before installing cards). Up & running again in minutes. I have now moved an external USB2 hard drive onto the server instead of it being directly connected to my workstation & yet still enjoy similar access speed with large files etc.
Netgear GA311 10/100/1000 Gigabit PCI Adapter
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Windows 2000I brought two of these cards, one for my file server and one for my workstation. I connected them with a Netgear GS104 Gigabit switch.
The setup process was very simple, install the software BEFORE fitting the card, fit the card, turn the PC on and Windows should install the driver for you.
Performance
Well it maxes out my SCSI array on the file server, which tops out at about 50MB/s. I can’t really go much faster as now the Hard drives on the PC are the limiting factor. CPU usage is around 30% on each machine.
Works Fine For Me!
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Windows XPBrought this card to link up with a gigabyte motherboard, Using a new cat 5 cross over cable to link both machines and got the 1gb network straight away.
If machine and cables are in good working order then you should have no problems. Dont forget if you are linking 3 or more machines together you will also need a 1gb switch.
Lightning Network Speed Upgrade with my setup!
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Windows XPI use to have 100Base T Network, now after upgrading to 1000Base T Network with these Gigabit cards I could tell the difference straight away.
I couldn't help thinking that it wasn't as fast as it should be, then I cracked it! I upgraded my network cabling from CAT 5e to the more expensive CAT 6. Since doing this upgrade, the gigabit NIC's seem to run at twice the speed as it did on CAT 5e and also accesses my Serial ATA HDDs much FASTER!
It's an Ethernet card.
Note that Ethernet networks perform best when kept under 30-40% capacity. This limitation is due to Ethernet’s media access method (CSMA/CD). Bandwidth usage that exceeds the recommended limitation results in increased collisions.
It is GigaBIT technology so 180 Megabytes x 8 = 1.4 gigabits/second.
Another consideration is that your HDD will probably only feed 150MB/S and so to expect your adapter to be able to take it from the disk any faster is naive to say the least.
NetGear GA311
Works fine at 1000mps (1GBS). Downloaded latest drivers for XP. attached to a netgear GS605 Gigabit switch and a Maxtor (Gigabit) shared drive II (500GB)and I now have very fast backup/shared drive capability. I used CAT5e cables and these work OK at 1GBS. maybe if you have probs you should check that your cables are not CAT5 or CAT4??
Next to useless
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LinuxThe R8169 chip performs extremely badly. It can barely go over 80Mbps in real-world situations with a high CPU load.
The Linux kernel driver doesn't support jumbo frames either (as of 2.6.8.1).
Get the 3Com instead.
GA311 - Its a dog
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Windows XPAs previous comment suggests - a GA311 in a Athlon 2000 runs at 100% CPU utilization to achieve a mere 180mb transfer speed. In a Athlon 3200+ it achieved 270mb, only a quarter of 1 gig, at 45% CPU utilisation. Very poor performer. Have been in discussions with Netgear on this and I am getting nowhere fast. You get what you pay for I guess. One star because its cheap and you will get roghly 3 times the throughput of a 100mb network. I would have been happy with 750-800mb.
Promises 1000MBit but delivers 65Mbit...
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Windows XPSadly, I have been unable to get this card to run any faster than 65MBit.
I had high hopes, but I guess you get what you pay for.
