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I had bought this hoping to use it in a Powermac G5 DP 2.0 (apparently the chipset is native to Mac OS X and does not require any drivers) and although the PCI card itself was seen in System Profiler, the network port was dead as a doornail. Incidently, this card is PCI not PCI-X. None of the activity lights would light up. To help diagnose the problem I put the card into my PC (2.8 Northwood P4) and same problem: the card was seen, drivers were installable, but the network port was dead. I ended up going with an Intel Ethernet 10/100/1000Mbps Dual RJ-45 PCI-X OEM PWLA8492MT instead -- which works perfectly. The Trendnet NIC might still work in Mac OS X if you don't get a defective unit like I did.
I have tried many ethernet cards, and this one is tops. I have several of them, and unlike many other nics, I am happy with all of them. It uses a superior chipset that is now hard to find, but it is highly reliable. Later versions tend to overheat, but not this one. This is clearly another gem from TRENDnet, and I am quickly becoming a fan. You need this card.Regards,proclushttp://www.gnu-darwin.org/
It avg around 7.5-7.7 mb/sec. Unless I'm doing something wrong, this card is slightly faster than my 100mb/s onboard nic. I copied a 4.7 gb iso file over from my NAS drive using the computer's onboard nic. Then I installed the pcitxr gigabit card and it definately was faster, but it only went up to about 11mb/sec. I didn't expect 10x improvement, but was hoping for just 2x (think about it, 1000/100=10x).BTW, I'm running a dlink dgs-2208 gigabit switch between the computer and the nas if that matters.
I installed this in a brand new Vista 32-bit machine and the device manager reported that the device "could not be started". Installing NIC's should be easy and this is probably the first that I've ever encountered problems with. I tried the latest drivers from TrendNet's web site but that didn't resolve the problem. TrendNet's Knowledge Base also didn't have any information about Vista. I replaced this with the slightly more expensive Intel PWLA8391GT PRO/1000 GT PCI Network Adapter Network Adapter and everything works perfectly. For an extra $10, the Intel board will save you a lot of time if you have Vista.
The OS picked it up as new hardware and I was not even prompted for drivers.The problems became apparent later on: The card is hooked up to a 16-port switch that connects all of my computers. Most of the time the copy operation would be interrupted for no good reason, and when I once or twice was able to copy the file, a SHA1 hash revealed it was corrupt.So, troubleshooting my problem I notice this: My Windows session on the server was being cut off suddenly during the file copy; nothing remained in the Windows event logs to help me out. I also have it set up to be SQL Server and web server for my own experiments.It is true that I was able to install it by simply connecting the card in a PCI slot. I bought this card as an addition to a Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition computer I run at home as my network server. I just hope the problem will not appear that much anymore, but to be 100% honest, I would not buy this brand again, or at the very least I just won't recommend this particular product.One more thing to note: When they worked, the Microsoft drivers were able to sustain a rather constant feed of 260 Mbits/s while the updated drivers from the manufacturer oscillate a LOT between 290 and almost 0 MBits/s. The next day the laptop was working just fine, being able to print and enumerate file shares.I was also having problems copying a 6 GB file from the server to my Vista desktop.
Nothing helped, and my Vista desktop was having no issues connecting to the server.
I had no trouble navigating the Internet on other computers, but it turns out that I was having a lot of intermittent problems accessing other Windows services.
I looked up updated drivers (the driver I was using for this card came from Microsoft) in the TrendNet website and the problem was largely resolved, but not 100%.
It does it all: NAT, DHCP, DNS, file server, print server, and domain controller.
After that, my Vista desktop was having intermittent problems reconnecting to the server.
For example, one Vista laptop could not print all of the sudden.
It could not even connect to the server to enumerate the file shares.
I have experienced the same problem once already with the new drivers.
True, the new drivers don't cut me off as the Microsoft driver did.
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