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

I tried an Intel PCIE 1.0 Dual Port NIC but it didn't work. So I gave this one a try as all my TP-Link switches were reliable and the reviews were good. As other reviewers have pointed out, it comes with a tiny driver disk for most operating systems. Windows 7 and pfSense worked without a disk. As I haven't seen anyone explicitly mention this, the card comes with a full-height bracket and a spare low-profile bracket. I mention this because not all cards that advertise a low-profile mount come with a full-height mount. That doesn't always happen, but it does happen. I urgently needed a new router. I had an HTPC that was gathering dust in the closet that housed my networking gear. So I decided to turn it into a pfSense box by installing pfSense on a flash drive. That way I can just pop out the flash drive if I ever decide to convert it back to HTPC. I needed an extra port for my pfSense box so I could separate my WiFi from my wired network. I would have preferred a dual port NIC just to have an extra port for future expansion, but the second port wasn't really necessary. Anyway, in the future I might just buy something better to work with pfSense. The card uses Realtek chips, but I don't see that as a problem anymore. If you want to use it in a more demanding environment, you will probably only see Intel products anyway. This is the motherboard that my pfSense box uses. Gigabyte Mainboard LGA 1155 DDR3 1600 Intel H77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Mini ITX GA-H77N-WIFI