Intel PRO/1000 GT Desktop Network Adapter PWLA8391GT

Lightning killed the integrated Intel Pro 100M NIC on my wife's 2003 vintage Dell Dimension XPS. I ordered this Intel card because of all of the good reviews. I ordered the card at 5:16 A.M. Thursday and Fedex delivered it to my door at 5:30 P.M. Friday, the next day. Ten minutes later I was up and running at high speed. Thanks to the good advice I received from the good folks at Virtual Dr tech forums I had a plan of action. I disabled the integrated card in the BIOs, then I shut down and installed the new Intel card in the bottom most open PCI slot, then I booted up and when Windows detected the new hardware I put in the software disc that came with the card. Viola, I was up and running. It couldn't have been easier. The card works great.

Bought this for my Dell XPS 7100 that had onboard Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet that was not working well with Win7 all of a sudden, it was taking 1-2 min. to connect by cable. Because of Dell's limited slots, I had only 1 PCI slot left, and it was a bear getting this card seated because my video card was flush against it. When it finally did seat, it worked 1st time and Windows installed a driver. Wanting to update the driver, I went to Intel's site and tried to use their software to detect the card, but it didn't work well at all (as a matter of fact, it caused my computer to crash with a blue screen and memory dump 3 times, and since I have a dual boot system, I tried it there with the same results) and for this particular card, it appears they haven't updated it for a long time and I couldn't find it listed on their website. I use DriverMax to keep all my drivers up-to-date, it's free and you can download 2 drivers per day, but you must do your homework cuz they don't always have the EXACT driver you need, sometimes its close but thankfully their rollback feature works well. I also use [...] (also free, but don't use the MediaGet feature cuz it installs a program for downloading torrents) for some drivers that I feel DriverMax doesn't always get right, but they don't always get the latest drivers for a few weeks. Case in point: I have a PCi 3.0 USB card by Iomega for extra ports and bought 2 external USB 3.0 storage drives. DriverMax has the correct driver for it, but because of the way it installs using their software, it does not always work correctly, but usually X-Driver.com will get the driver from Renesas 2-3 weeks later and it installs flawlessly. Well, anyway, back to the Intel driver, DriverMax had an update (V 8.3.15.0), but I checked with x-drivers.com, and they had a completely different set of drivers for the Gbe or PRO 1000, but not the GT specifically.

Very easy installation, quality looks good, Windows 7 recognized it instantly and installed the drivers without issue. However this adapter would not connect to our router, a fairly new router at that. After hours of checking and rechecking every possible problem, I stumbled across the answer. This LAN adapter will not work properly with a Windows 7 64bit PC with more than 3gb memory. Once I pulled 1gb of memory, viola! We were up and running. We are returning this one and trying a different manufacture. Sadly becuase quality on this Intel LAN looked good. This review is in case anyone else is experiencing the same problems.

I purchased this card to use in a test VMware ESXi system. Since it had great reviews and others stated that it worked with ESXi, I decided to buy it. During the install of ESXi, everything went smoothly. However, when I booted the server for the first time, the card was not visible is ESXi (i.e. 'esxcfg-nics -l' only showed the on-board NIC). Reviewing the output of 'dmesg' showed this error for the new card: 'e1000: 0000:01:06.0: e1000_probe: Invalid MAC Address' I then used a bootable Ubuntu USB drive to start the server so that I could further diagnose the issue. Running 'ifconfig -a' showed the card to have the following MAC: 01:01:00:00:06:a2. This is an invalid MAC address according to ESXi, I believe because of the first octet, and it does not match the MAC address printed on the card. Fortunately, this was a simple fix using a package called 'ethtool.' This will not be extremely detailed and is probably not for beginners, but you can do the following to fix the issue: 1) Run 'ethtool -e eth0 | head -n 3', which will dump out a couple of header rows and then a line of hex. The first six bytes of the hex output should show the currently configured MAC address. 2) Run the following to replace the invalid MAC address with the MAC address printed on the card (e.g. 00:07:e9:01:02:03). # ethtool -E eth0 magic 0x017c8086 offset 0x0 value 0x00 # ethtool -E eth0 magic 0x017c8086 offset 0x1 value 0x07 # ethtool -E eth0 magic 0x017c8086 offset 0x2 value 0xe9 # ethtool -E eth0 magic 0x017c8086 offset 0x3 value 0x01 # ethtool -E eth0 magic 0x017c8086 offset 0x4 value 0x02 # ethtool -E eth0 magic 0x017c8086 offset 0x5 value 0x03 3) If you run 'ethtool -e eth0 | head -n 3' again, the first six bytes should show the new MAC address. 4) Reboot the server and ESXi and the new card should be able to get an IP address now. In short, I am guessing that this card is a refurbished item and that the refurbish process did not include resetting the EEPROM. At least it was a simple fix, but I still only gave the product 4-stars because of this issue.

XP（pen4）に使用。ネット環境が光・１Ｇｂなので、最初はRealtek製のGigabit LANカードを使用していました。いろいろ設定した結果、速度は上り・下り共に４００Mb超えで安定し、問題もなく稼動していました。決して悪くはないですよ！（一度ドライバのエラーがありましたが） しかし、せっかくの１Ｇｂ通信にせめて速度６００Mbはほしいと思い、試しにこちらの商品を購入し、設置してみました。 設置は簡単、またドライバの認識も自動で行う上、ドライバディスクもついているのでインストールも問題なくできました。 そして、速度テストを行ってみると・・・。 でました！６００Mb超え！さすがIntel製！！！ やはり性能がいいんですかね？！ 確かに、いろんな機能もついていますが特にさわることもなくいい状態です。 その後、設定等いろいろやってみて、結果的に速度は上り５５０Mb、下り６００〜７００Mbの数値で収まっています。 まあネットの速度だけではなくて、確実にこの商品の安定さに満足しています。 この値段で、納得して使えるのは間違いないですね！！ 買ってよかったと心底思えましたよ〜。 さすがIntel v(￣∇￣)ﾆﾔｯ

Diese Netzwerkkarte ist absolut top! Sie hat "neu" einschließlich Versand hier nur 18,99 EUR gekostet. Ich habe dann nach Erhalt einfach nur den PC-Seitendeckel geöffnet, diese PCI-Karte in den entsprechenden Slot gesteckt, das Slotblech mit einer Schraube fixiert, dann den PC hochgefahren und in den Gerätetreiber geschaut. Der Netzwerkadapter war ohne Fehler eingetragen. Hinweis Gerätestatus: „Das Gerät funktioniert einwandfrei“. Der Treiber ([System Windows 10], Microsoft Vers. 8.4.13.0 vom 23.03.2010) hatte sich also direkt beim Hochfahren selbst installiert. Innerhalb von wenigen Minuten war alles erledigt. Die Intel-Karte hat ja keinen eigenen Treiber mit dabei, aber dieser ist eben nicht erforderlich.

Works great with unRAID on an old motherboard with a PCI slot. The intel chipset is flawless, works very well underload unlike RealTek RTL8111 chips which were causing IRQ issues in unRAID.

Scheda classica PCI che però viene riconosciuta perfettamente da vsphere 4. Della stessa serie ora ci sono anche alternative pci express, ma questa è una scelta sicura.

Je cherchais une carte avec des performances acceptables, reconnue par ESXi 5.1 et peu couteuse. Celle ci remplit totalement mes exigences.