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Review on Rosewill 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet Card, High-Speed Network Adapter, NIC for Computer Systems and Servers, Gigabit RJ45 PCIe Network Card with Power Saving, PCIE 1000M (RC-411v3) by Andrew Kamkoff

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Seems to work fine with Linux Mint 19.1 on an old HP computer

I installed it on an old HP Pavilion p6537c to give it gigabit ethernet. It is easy to install and works out of the box with Linux Mint 19.3 (Kernel 4.10.0-38-generic) installed. I confirmed that with iperf:user@machine1 $ iperf -c machine2------------------------------ - Gigabit- speeds can be reached. - ----------------------Client connects to machine2, TCP port 5001 TCP window size: 85.0 KB (default)------ ---- -------------------------------------- ------- - ---[ 3] local 192.168.1.235 port 38452 connected to 192.168.1.15 port 5001[ ID] interval transmission bandwidth[ 3] 0.0-10.0 s 1.10 GB 941 Mbps

Pros
  • Jumbo Frame: 4K Bytes Port: 1x 10/100/1000 Mbps RJ45 Network Media: 10baset-t: Category 3, 4, 5 UTP cable (max. 100M) EIA/ tia-568 100 STP (100MB max)
Cons
  • Not the best