D-Link DGE-530T 10/100/1000 Gigabit Desktop Adapter
- Connect to a Wired Network and Surf the Web with Your Desktop PC
- Windows® Automatically Detects the Adapter for Easy Installation
- Designed for VoIP, Extreme Gaming, Transferring Music, Video, and Large Files
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Runs great, no problems,
First after reading most of the reviews I have to say that gigabit does not “speed up” your network. It will not allow you to transfer Access files faster, or to copy files faster (usually). You are almost ALWAYS limited to your hard drive speed, and the operating system.
Where we see a huge increase is in applications that talk back and forth to each other using sockets (database servers being a good example – NOT access which is a file share). We have apps internally that exceed 600 megabits / sec with these cards. We have the card installed under Server 2003, FreeBSD 5.x and 6.x, and Red Hat Linux.
Samba is not a benchmark tool, and is usually a huge bottleneck for most LAN’s. If you want to test the network card use an ECHO server, or some other benchmark tool.
The big gain on this card is that it supports full duplex gigabit. Some of the other low end cards are non dma cards (all of the transfers happen from CPU, not hardware). This makes a huge difference in throughput. Some of our internal applications have seen a drop in CPU usage over the previous 100MB cards that were non DMA systems. The only exception is the Intel Etherexpress PRO Gig S card. It uses a hardware chip for SSL encryption as well and can save a lot of CPU for web servers that use SSL.
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|Connection problems,
I’m having the same connectivity issues as the other two reviewers (Noah and Casey). We have two servers where I installed the cards, running Windows 2003 Standard Server with SP1 and all updates; the servers are connected to 3COM gigabit switch. The connection starts just fine, but it cuts off in about 2 to 4 min of medium file traffic, and the servers become inaccessible – not even responding to pings. The card needs to be reset to restore the connection – only to drop it again in the next 3 minutes. We tested the switch to ensure it’s working, and we tested the cabling, as well, – everything seemed working fine. Finally, we gave up and installed more expensive Intel 82541PI Gigabit cards. No problems since then.
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|Great, inexpensive gigabit card for Linux and Windows,
I got this card after my on-board Gigabit adapter failed. I looked around and this was the best choice for an inexpensive Gigabit network card with Linux support. I have purchased close to 10 of them for my home office network and am very satisfied. I’ve since put in two D-Link switches, a D-Link WAP, and a D-Link VPN router.
My usage is limited to mostly the transfer of a lot of small files, but there are some occasional largish files. By upgrading my network to 1000 Mb/s (NICs, switches, and even cat5e cable), I now average ~35 MB/s for disk-bound file copies, which for me is great compared to my 100 Mb/s rate of ~5 MB/s. (Edit: the 35 MB/s is over Samba, I can get speeds of ~50MB/s over HTTP.) I am *not* a network engineer or sys admin so it’s quite possible that one could achieve better/faster/higher rates.
Also, this NIC comes with a “faceplate” for slim profile computers. It’s fairly easy to swap with a small Phillips screwdriver.
Highly recommended!
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