Intel PWLA8391GT PRO/1000 GT PCI Network Adapter
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Customer Review: A lil pricy...but it works.
Summary: 4 Stars
I had been using the onboard LAN and it was getting somewhat slow.
I had read that this card was pretty decent, but some said it wouldn't
work for W7Pro-64. Well it does. I loaded a Vista 64 driver for this
card, disabled the onboard LAN in BIOS, and it was picked up as soon
as unit was completely booted. It does come with an installation CD
from Intel, but the Vista driver for 64 bit seemed to do the trick.
It is faster. I can tell and I'm liking that part of it very much. I
use Ver*zon DSL at 768 or whatever the transfer is and that's good enough
for me. I DON'T care for the price in comparison to the speed of transfer
I picked up, but that is not Amazon's fault, that's all about Intel's wallet.
It's ok, and I would of given it a 5 star, but the price being what it is
and what I getting out of it.....it only rates 4, though I do admit if I
had a faster transfer rate it would probably be a much more satisfying
add-on and DO recommended it for anyone who wants a half way decent
card.
Amazon as usual, handled my order with the professionalism I'm accustomed
to, that's why I'm a return customer.
Customer Review: Another great Intel Product
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm fairly technical, and I tend to work with standard products that I know are reliable. Intel is one of the brands that I never have to worry about, whether it's an Intel motherboard or an Intel network adapter.
In this case, I had three of my systems being operated and maintained at an off-site facility, and I brought them back into my own facility. Some one of the maintenance guys at the off-site facility had swapped out my Intel adapter for a NetGear adapter on one of the systems (I have no idea why), and I didn't immediately notice the change. After having a tough time getting my system, high speed cable network, and DIR-655 router working together, I narrowed the problem to the system's network adapter.
I purchased the Intel PWLA8391GT from Amazon at a good price, received it in a timely fashion, and after installing it on my troubled system, everything worked well.
Intel makes good products. This is one of them.
Customer Review: works great if you plug it in all the way!
Summary: 5 Stars
Works perfectly on my Dell Dimension 9100, Intel Pentium 4 Processor 630, running Windows XP. Plug and play... once I plugged the card in all the way ;-) !!! Needed to replace a faulty OEM integrated ethernet port when I upgraded to FIOS router. Was getting by on a USB connection with old DSL modem.
Being a technonumnutz I was willing to pay a premium to minimize hastle, and I needed a card that would work 32 or 64 bit since I was not certain which I had. I share my particular challenges for anyone as incompetent as myself:
first had to remove an unused fax card to open up a slot
second failed to plug in the card all the way. I mention this because the system diagnostics showed the card working fine, but interestingly listed it as a different card! After nothing else worked I took the cover off and reinserted the card again. Problem solved.
Customer Review: Intel PWLA89GT PRO/1000 GT PCI Network Adapter
Summary: 2 Stars
From everything I read about this Intel network adapter card, it should have worked well with my computer on which I had recently installed Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate. However, when I had trouble getting it to work correctly after a normal install, I searched the Intel support website, only to find that Intel supports only a very few of their network adapter cards under Windows 7 64-bit, and this is not one of them. While I accept it as my mistake that I bought the card without checking the Intel support site for compatibility before I made the purchase (the Amazon product descripton provided no indication of Win 7 compatibility), I strongly suggest that anyone planning to purchase an Intel network adapter check the Intel support site for compatibility with Windows 7 before pulling the trigger.Customer Review: Great gigabit card
Summary: 5 Stars
I got this NIC around the holidays because one of my desktop's onboard NIC was acting funny. So I purchased a few, and after I installed it into my desktops, it worked immediately. The computers are all dual boot workstations with Windows XP Pro and Kubuntu 7.04, and all computers worked with both OSs right away. However, I chose to install current drivers to get full access. It works well with my gigabit switch, where the limitation is due only to other computers with 10/100 NIC. Because I am used to comps with 10/100 cards, I see a significant difference in transfer rate between computers with this card installed!
Pros: Great performance, ease of installation, supports a great variety of operating systems, support for Gigabit.
Cons: Could be cheaper.