Review on 💻 X-MEDIA XM-NA3500: High-Speed Gigabit Ethernet Network Card for Windows 10 & Linux by Bishop Terry

I have 3 old computers that have both PCI and PCI-e slots but all the PCI-e slots were occupied. I needed a second network card to access the "private" (intranet) network that includes our NAS devices and printers. One machine is running Windows XP with legacy hardware that cannot be migrated to a newer OS, one is running Windows 7, and a third is running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS with KDE Plasma. All 3 can access the internet through the network interface on the motherboard and the private network on these gigabit PCI cards. They were great and inexpensive. They were recognized immediately in all 3 operating systems and required no drivers. I had to use the netsh command on the Windows XP command line to remove the second gateway, which is a DHCP-enabled router. On Linux I find it best to find out which of the two NICs i.e. this one had the lowest metric and was mapped to the network with internet and the other to the private network without internet. This method works best for me and lasts when machines are running days/weeks etc.