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Review on 🌐 TP-Link TG-3468 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express Network Card: PCIE Adapter for PC with Win10 Support by Seth Heck

Revainrating 5 out of 5

TP-Link Realtek Gigabit Ethernet Adapter.

You have one of the MSI motherboards with KILLER E2200 network adapter, hot trash is a good way to describe it, the driver set is so buggy that the card literally disappears in the middle of .net browsing from your system and won't even show up in Device Mangler. This is useless exercise. Driver software and even support are useless. Enter the TP LINK product family. I've been buying their products for many years, they've never given me any problems except for a minor connection to the AC 750 router which went away after a firmware update. They tend to cater to the tech market with detachable/upgradable external antennas and customizable settings on most of their best products. the thing to which it refers. So I bought one of these for $15, literally turned the computer off, plugged the adapter between my twin Nvidia Titan SLI GPUs, and turned the computer back on. After 9 seconds the desktop appears, enter my password and already the card is loaded drivers and connected with 1000x1000 MB, fast trace and ping-t and some speed tests show that it uses every megabyte of this connection in full duplex with NOT ONE error that actual throughput is 2 gigabits. It is important. The reason for this is that most of us have internet speeds well over 10/100. If you're saving on a cheap Cisco 10/100 router or cable modem, gigabit won't help, you're still limited to 100MB. In my case, each desktop is gigabit, the switches are gigabit, and the router/cable modem is gigabit. On Spectrum Internet I have an average download speed of 960MB and an output of 260MB. Less than 18 seconds to download a copied DVD from a remote FTP server. The average time before was about 3-4 minutes. It's a decent card for the price, Realtek meets old-school Intel NIC standards, and unlike KILLER Networking's built-in junk, it takes WAY less resources and CPU/RAM to run. .Overall worth 5 stars. I also have 2 and 4 port server NICs with the same chipset and they are also very good and incredibly stable. Purchase one and replace the Killer Networking E2200 or 2000/3000 Series INTEGRATED cards, then be sure to REMOVE all drivers and the KILLER NETWORKING SOFTWARE. . There are countless articles online on how to do this.

Pros
  • Certified
Cons
  • Cable is shorter than others