Review on In-Line Surge Protector Power Strip for 💡 Network and Phone Lines: Tripp Lite DNET1 RJ45 1-Line by Chad Judex

I've never owned anything from Tripp Lite but I know they have an excellent reputation for quality. This review is more of a warning to those who might make the same mistake I did than a genuine review of the product. So you understand my experience. I'm a bit new to computers, not an expert but someone who builds my own PCs and works in the IT industry (servers, storage and networks) in sales and marketing and is responsible for technical issues. knowledge and training. I'm so used to the fact that network devices are usually backwards compatible that it never occurred to me check the network compatibility type on DNET1. But when I connected it (properly with ground to the computer case, a wire from the wall to the line-in on the device, and a hardware output on the device to the computer's gigabit NIC) to the NIC on my desktop, a very strange message started to appear . Approximately every second Windows says "Internet is off" and a second later "Internet is connected". I would just keep doing it. The connection is switched on and off cyclically. It broke the connection again and again. At first I thought I had a defective unit, so I tried another DNET1 that I had bought at the same time for another computer. The same thing. I racked my brains until I realized that the DNET1 specifications are for 10/100 networks, not 10/1000 (gigabit). So I grabbed an old dusty 10/100 PCI card to see if there was any life left in it, and damn it, it is. So after making sure the 10/100 card was still working, I connected DNET1 to the new 10/100 card and it worked, but very, very slowly. Like a 56k modem is slow. All I can make out of this is that while my gigabit switch can detect and work compatible with 10/100 cards, DNET1 can't work well with gigabit switches or cards. While I haven't had a chance to test it yet, I give DNET1 the benefit of the doubt that it would work fine if I had a 10/100 switch paired with a 10/100 NIC. This seems like a superfluous page to me. If the new gigabit switches work well and are backwards compatible with any 10/100 NIC, why can't they work with this DNET1? It seems to me,