Card arrived dead. Windows recognized it but returned the message device could not start. No lights, no network connection. Windows troubleshooter said it was a problem with either the hardware or the drivers. I tried both the drivers on the included disk and the drivers from the website, even uninstalled my motherboard's network card drivers.

Received on time in a well packaged and identified retail box. Came with install cd, manual, and card. Installed software from cd, turned off the system, popped card in, rebooted and worked right away. Been up three days solid as a rock with huge data transfers without error. Another good buy from ths mfg.

I had to remove a star because the first one was bad. Wouldn't let my computer boot up.Amazon replaced it quickly and the second one works fine.I needed gigabit to speed up transfer of movies to my htpc hard drives. I have an htpc with 2 usb 3.0 seagates full of movies. Transferring movie files from my desktop to the htpc took a long time with 10/100 Lan. I couldn't get on the internet while transferring movies because my network card was maxxed out.After installing this card my transfer rate went from 10MB/sec to 80MB/sec. So I can now transfer movies to the htpc or any other computer on my network plus surf the net without any problems.Note that you will only see 30MB/sec if you are using usb 2.0 drives but that has nothing to do with the card.Didn't need any special drivers with Windows 7x64. Worked straight up.

Works very good & for the money this item is a great value. I've had this card about 2 months and works great!

Purchased this card to replace the onboard port that failed after a lightning storm. Installed quickly and easily in my Windows 7 machine. Links and performs well at 1/Gbps.

I use a pair of these cards in Linux (FC6) and Windows XP. They were easy to install and support jumbo frames. On Linux, I set the MTU to 7000 and on Windows XP there was only a setting to "enable" jumbo frames in the Advanced tab on the driver properties. The Netgear GS605 supports jumbo frames, too, and I saw the transfer of a 3.5GB file go from 3m40s to 3m10s after enabling jumbo frames on both hosts.Highly recommended.