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Review on Enhance Network Performance with StarTech.com PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Fiber Network Card w/Open SFP by Ethan Carpenter

Revainrating 1 out of 5

Poor performance and minimal documentation

everything, what I bought this network card for our application where we transmit 10Gb/s UDP packets to a server (connected directly). After spending a month with this module, we could not achieve the required performance. , Windows Server 2012 R2), even if you open the configuration menu, the minimal help, description and some texts are larger than the viewport and you cannot change the size of the viewport.Then we decided to buy an Intel X520-DA1 Network card and Va- Out of the box it reaches 10 Gbps, not to mention the documentation in the settings menu is detailed and well written, and the worst thing is that this card costs twice as much as the jumper.

Pros
  • IEEE802.3z 1000Base-SX/LX compliant, IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tagging, IEEE 802.1P Layer 2 priority encoding, IEEE 802.3x full-duplex flow control, RFC 1157 SNMP v1
Cons
  • Big and clunky