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| Brand: | TP-Link |
| Item Height : | 28 millimetres |
| Item Width: | 13.6 centimetres |
Technical Details
- Wake-on-LAN supporting
- Auto-Negotiation and Auto MDI/MDIX
- Supports IEEE802.3x Flow Control for Full-duplex Mode and backpressure for Half-duplex Mode
- Supports IEEE 802.1p Layer 2 Priority Encoding and IEEE802.1q VLAN tagging
- Supports power down/link down power saving
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Product Description
Manufacturer's Description
TG-3468 10/100/1000Mbps Gigabit PCIe Network Adapter is a highly integrated and cost-effective 32-bit Gigabit PCIe Ethernet Adapter which is fully compliant with IEEE 802.3, IEEE 802.3u and IEEE 802.3ab specifications.The PCIe Gigabit Network Adapter TG-3468 is a high performance adapter designed for the high-speed PCI Express Bus Architecture. Designed to support 10/100/1000Mbps network speed Auto-Negotiation, 802.3x flow control and Wake-on-LAN technology. TG-3468 Gigabit PCIe Network Adapter is a highly integrated and cost-effective Gigabit Ethernet adapter which is a good selection to upgrade your network.
Product Description
TPLink 32bit Gigabit PCIe Networks Adapter Realtek RTL8168B 101001000Mbps AutoNegotiation RJ45 port Auto MDIMDIX TG3468 TP LINK
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
I've got loads of gigabit cards lying around, from branded makes that lasted a few months to my last one that became erratic after 3 months and kept losing connection - probably due to the June temperature rise.
This one, cheap though it is, was the easiest to install. In Windows 7 64 bit, you just put in the mini PCI express slot, switch on the PC and Windows automatically downloads a microsoft realtek 64 bit driver from March 2011 - as oppose to old 2009 driver that is packaged with this item. Although the drivers do cover linux 2.4, 2.6, NDIS2, Novel netware client and server, W7 (32/64 bit) W2000, Vista 32-64 bit and XP.
It has a boot rom that adds a Shift-F10 option to your PC startup (before the OS boots) to allow a choice of ptotocol (RPL, PXE) and the Boot Order (Int 19h, 18H, PNP or disable). It has a proper wake-on-lan and supports jumbo frames 4 MTU. You can edit all this on the normal Windows control panel - devices - network card - properties - driver dialog box. But everything, apart from jumbo frames is auto-negotiated anyway. So you don't need to touch anything or even understand any of that - as it works out of the box.
I got speeds of around 30MB/s across my gigabit network (what's that, about 240mbps?), which is fine for shifing large files to the server.
The Maximum Packet size for Jumbo frames on this card is 4K MTU (not the 9K MTU of slightly more expensive ones - so if you've got a lightening fast BUS and SATA III disk then you might need 9 MTU)
Not had any problems with it - - and even if I did, I wouldn't care at this price.
This one, cheap though it is, was the easiest to install. In Windows 7 64 bit, you just put in the mini PCI express slot, switch on the PC and Windows automatically downloads a microsoft realtek 64 bit driver from March 2011 - as oppose to old 2009 driver that is packaged with this item. Although the drivers do cover linux 2.4, 2.6, NDIS2, Novel netware client and server, W7 (32/64 bit) W2000, Vista 32-64 bit and XP.
It has a boot rom that adds a Shift-F10 option to your PC startup (before the OS boots) to allow a choice of ptotocol (RPL, PXE) and the Boot Order (Int 19h, 18H, PNP or disable). It has a proper wake-on-lan and supports jumbo frames 4 MTU. You can edit all this on the normal Windows control panel - devices - network card - properties - driver dialog box. But everything, apart from jumbo frames is auto-negotiated anyway. So you don't need to touch anything or even understand any of that - as it works out of the box.
I got speeds of around 30MB/s across my gigabit network (what's that, about 240mbps?), which is fine for shifing large files to the server.
The Maximum Packet size for Jumbo frames on this card is 4K MTU (not the 9K MTU of slightly more expensive ones - so if you've got a lightening fast BUS and SATA III disk then you might need 9 MTU)
Not had any problems with it - - and even if I did, I wouldn't care at this price.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Great value for money card.
Installed two of these cards onto my PC and they were automatically detected by Windows 7. Running at gigabit speeds on my home network without any issues.
Great buy....
TP-Link TG-3468 - Network adapter - PCI Express x1 - Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet - 10Base-T, 100Base-TX, 1000Base-T
Installed two of these cards onto my PC and they were automatically detected by Windows 7. Running at gigabit speeds on my home network without any issues.
Great buy....
TP-Link TG-3468 - Network adapter - PCI Express x1 - Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet - 10Base-T, 100Base-TX, 1000Base-T
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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PC wouldn't boot to windows after installing this card. It would get to where windows would normally start but go to a Novell Network Ready screen and proceed to count from 1 to 50 then stop. The PC would then fail to respond to keyboard inputs and require manually shutting down via the power button.
Turns out that by default it tries to boot from a network device, which, let's face it is stupid because most people who use this card won't need this function.
After tons of experimenting (without success) I rang TPlink helpline, who were totally useless repeatedly advising me to "download new drivers from our website sir". As the PC wouldn't boot that wasn't much help!
Finally discovered that pressing Shift-F10 takes you to a config screen where you can turn off the boot from network facility (remember to save the setting!).
This boot time key-press config is not mentioned in the little pamphlet that comes with the card and I only came across the info by luck. TP-Link didn't have a clue what I was talking about when I rang them back!!!
Shocking...!
Although it now seems to work perfectly, I've only given it three stars due to the aggravation it caused me.
btw, I'm normally a fan of TP-Link (despite the shoddy tech support). Every item of my 12 PC network is comprised of TP-Link products, router, repeaters, switches etc.
EDIT:
Just read through the reviews on here and noticed that John Bradshaw mentions Shift-F10.
Just goes to prove one of the best places on the net to get honest, intelligent reviews and advice is Amazon. I'll come here first next time...! (Thanks John.)
Turns out that by default it tries to boot from a network device, which, let's face it is stupid because most people who use this card won't need this function.
After tons of experimenting (without success) I rang TPlink helpline, who were totally useless repeatedly advising me to "download new drivers from our website sir". As the PC wouldn't boot that wasn't much help!
Finally discovered that pressing Shift-F10 takes you to a config screen where you can turn off the boot from network facility (remember to save the setting!).
This boot time key-press config is not mentioned in the little pamphlet that comes with the card and I only came across the info by luck. TP-Link didn't have a clue what I was talking about when I rang them back!!!
Shocking...!
Although it now seems to work perfectly, I've only given it three stars due to the aggravation it caused me.
btw, I'm normally a fan of TP-Link (despite the shoddy tech support). Every item of my 12 PC network is comprised of TP-Link products, router, repeaters, switches etc.
EDIT:
Just read through the reviews on here and noticed that John Bradshaw mentions Shift-F10.
Just goes to prove one of the best places on the net to get honest, intelligent reviews and advice is Amazon. I'll come here first next time...! (Thanks John.)
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Works but you need a fast PC to get full Gb speeds
This card does indeed work well if you have no intention of going for full gigabit speeds and performance without good fast CPU. Read more
Published 13 days ago by Nick_t
Recognised Immediately
I'm using this on a Windows 7 Professional 64-bit PC.
I couldn't use the port on my motherboard so just bought one that was good enough from the present reviews. Read more
I couldn't use the port on my motherboard so just bought one that was good enough from the present reviews. Read more
Published 13 days ago by Chengal Tiger
It does the job
I needed to upgrade my PC to use an external network drive. It was straight forward to install and solved the problem of slow transfers (especially with images and videos). Read more
Published 28 days ago by Jerokee
1st class
Worked straight out of the box with windows 7, up and running from opening box to complete installation in approx 5mins.
Published 2 months ago by G
Exellent!
Stable and Fast.
My card working on my home server, i love it ;-)
No Configuration needed on linux and Windows just Plug and Play.
Best Value for Price!!!
My card working on my home server, i love it ;-)
No Configuration needed on linux and Windows just Plug and Play.
Best Value for Price!!!
Published 3 months ago by mie_mode
Cheap but it works!
My win7-64 Dell motherboard has on-board LAN which fails when temp is COLD :(
I bought an Edimax LAN card from Amazon for £14 which neither win7 nor I could find the drivers... Read more
I bought an Edimax LAN card from Amazon for £14 which neither win7 nor I could find the drivers... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Alan J. Green
IPv4 Nightmare!!!
Bought this item ready for broadband boost. Tried installing it for two nights what a nightmare. It was auto allocating itself an ip address instead of using the one from my... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Rothers
PC wouldn't even boot with it installed
Installed it in my PC, and it wouldn't boot up. Tried several times without success, then I tried without the card, booted no problem. Read more
Published 5 months ago by SteveQB
Great card for Linux and Windows
Kitted my home devices out with a bunch of these. Autodetects in Win7, Requires manual driver install with XP (use supplied driver disk or pre-download latest from web site), and... Read more
Published 8 months ago by acz
Gigabit network card to speed up Sage
Bought three of these; easy to fit to Win7 desktops and made a huge difference to network-intensive applications like Sage Accounts. Read more
Published 8 months ago by bm6563
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