D-Link DGE-560T Gigabit PCI-Express SNMP VLAN Flow Control Network Adapter

I purchased one of these for my file/game server running on windows XP x64 about two months ago since the motherboard only supported 10/100 speeds and I finally upgraded to gigabit router (D-link DIR-655) and wanted to take full advantage of the throughput it had to offer across my LAN (especially with all of the file transfers and media streaming I tend to do across my LAN). There was instantly a notceable improvement to latency on the LAN ~10ms, and latency to my first hop ~40ms.

I liked it so much I decided to purchase one for my Desktop (running windows Vista Ultimate x64) since the integrated realtek LAN controller on my Abit IP-35pro was gigabit, but runs on a 32bit PCI bus which handicapped transfers somewhat. I'm now seeing better bandwidth saturation and consistency in packet transmits between the two machines.

One of the other reviewers here mentioned that there is no vista (x86 or x64) driver support on D-Link's website, and while this may be...Read more

It's just another gigabit ethernet card. Installs easily. Supported under XP x64. Works fine with the resident XP drivers.

Card works like downtown. Using two of them in two different computers. Never a hitch over a three-year period.