Review on ASUS XG C100C Network Adapter Single by Jon Higdem

If you are having connection problems with this card, check out the possible solution below! I bought two of these cards to fill my growing 10 gigabit network in my house. One for my NAS and one for my media server to save $200 with the Intel T1. I've had good luck with Aquantia chipsets on motherboards in the past, so I wanted to try my luck here (these cards use Aquantia 107 chips). After installing the cards, everything was fine until I pressed speed test. The loading gave an error every time and everything seemed a bit sluggish. Trying new drivers and switching to Cat 7 cables didn't work. A few days after rebooting, I noticed that the activity lights were on on both cards, but Windows showed the cable was disconnected. I spent hours fiddling with my switch settings, reboots, driver updates, rollbacks, nothing. I postponed this project for several months to today. (I should also mention that the card worked in my NAS, but there was still a problem booting from outside the WAN; the media server didn't work). After playing around with it again using the drivers from the Aquantia website, I increased the transfer buffer from the default 4096 to 8184 and now my NAS is fully speed tested and local transfers are much faster with no RDP slowdown. It seems to have helped this card, but the card on my media server is still not working properly. On my media server I moved the PCI-E slots that was causing the cable connection status and packet flow, but after a reboot it shows the DC again with the exact settings above. I haven't tried restarting my NAS to see if the issue is 100% resolved, but for now this seems to have fixed the issue. I should mention that my media server uses an older platform which may cause other problems. I set the settings: ARP off. Energy Efficient Ethernet Off Flow control off Number of threads on your CPU or less as it increases CPU load) NS offload off (applies only to some Aquantia chipsets) Transmission buffer 8184 Not everyone is going to have this exact problem, but if you do have this problem or have speed issues, I would try these settings to see if that solves your problem. Check the Aquantia website for updated drivers, chipset 107. This product will receive 5 stars if Aquantia/Asus releases stable drivers suitable for all system situations. It seems that some form of this problem exists for many buyers, which is why I gave it a 3 star rating. You can't beat a small, compact, and cheap $100 10Gb NIC when it comes ready to use right out of the box. Updated 06/25/2018. I've since removed both cards from these machines, opting for Intel from 10GTek instead. For my application, they've been torn as to whether they work or not, and I refuse to wonder if I can leave the house without the network adapter crashing.