TP-Link N900 Wireless Dual Band PCI Express Adapter(TL-WDN4800)

As an IT professional, I use a lot of different hardware, and I do mean A LOT. I have 6 different computers on my desk at work, just for me. I also have a lab with 6 computers at home where I teach myself about new technologies, something every truly serious IT professional has (or should have). I recently had the opportunity to acquire a switch for my home lab that supports 10Gbps on some of its ports. It's an enterprise-grade managed switch that's very similar to what we use at work, so naturally I snatched it quicker than a hungry snake striking at a mouse. It affords me the chance to learn more about the management features in an environment that is safe to really dig in and experiment without fear of crashing the network at work. At work, I also have a 10Gbps link between a couple of my computers and the server rack. It's really nice to have when troubleshooting issues. It's also really nice for speedy communication with the file server. Network drives perform as if they are local drives. Since I got my "new" (to me, anyway) switch at home, I decided to go ahead and get a few of these 10Gpbs network cards to go with it. They are fantastic! The drivers in Windows were easy to install and work well, and my Linux box simply saw it and started using it right out of the chute. It really could not have been easier to get them up and running. It's been a fantastic upgrade to my home lab.

The product functions as promised. I transfer large files at 1 GB/s over my network to an SSD RAID. My only concern is how hot it gets during use. I’ve done some research and found that it is considered safe, but it feels very warm to the touch. To address this, I purchased a Noctua NF-A4x20 PWM High-Performance Quiet Fan (40mm); now the TX401 operates at a significantly cooler temperature. It should come with a fan.

I bought this card because: 1) My existing desktop card was slow and flaky, 2) This was the right price and supports dual band (G and N), 3) had great product reviews here on Amazon. The good reviews are correct. Bad reviews, well while it's possible to get a bad card, I would suggest something isn't right with the person's machine, installation, or software / hardware compatibility. You should be able to install this card and be up and running in a matter of a few minutes. I would highly recommend also installing the software including the utility to connect to wireless networks. In most cases Windows will work fine without installing any of the software. I run this card with Windows 7 in a Dell XPS 8300 desktop. I was getting 30- 60 Mbps on my PC across the house in another room on a comcast 110 download / 10 Upload Mbps connection using an ASUS dual-band router and my flaky wireless Amped card. After installing this TP-LINK card I am getting between 100 / 130 Mbps. It effectively doubled my speed. I get full bandwidth use over wireless now, something that the comcast engineer told me was impossible. I tested on speedtest.net. YMMV. If you need a new card or are replacing an existing card, I would highly recommend this PCI-E card. UPDATE 7/22/2016 I bought another one, the high-end AC dual band one for a new build. It works fine with Windows 10. It didn't automatically detect, but with the CD driver install, just ran that, and boom! No-nonsense install and operation. I am getting 180 Mbps over my Infinity wireless connection just with preliminary testing. Downloaded half a gig in a few minutes. Smoking! I recommend this card to anybody and everyone, what a good fast card to have. Working great with an ASUS Dual band router.

I bought TP-Link's 10gbe (TX401) card on sale after having Google Fiber 8gbit internet installed at my house. I also have a TP-Link AX16000 router, and multiple TP-Link switches. Until this card, I had nothing but great things to say about the value or 'bang for buck' of their products. Still no major issues with their brand, just steer clear of this card. My Win11 gaming machine kept randomly dropping connection under various load. Sometimes 1gbps, sometimes 6gbps. I didn't try it in my NAS so I can't comment. I had an extra Intel X540-T2 in my stash so I decided to put that in and give it a rip. Works flawlessly so I am returning this TP-Link 10gbe card. I tried various cables, drivers, settings, and all sorts of stuff to try to get it to work. Ultimately if it drops at random, it's useless. I was hoping to purchase a few more of these for our other machines in the house to remove my reliance on eBay 'Genuine' Intel cards. Other interesting behavior: it gets really, really hot. I suppose that's not surprising but I am concerned it doesn't have a fan on it to keep itself cool. I rigged up a 140mm fan near it and that seemed to cool it down quite a bit, but it didn't solve my issues. Aside from random drops, the performance copying files from my NAS was incredibly strange. My NAS also has an Intel X540-T2 and using my motherboard's built-in 2.5gbe (also Intel) NIC, I was able to get ~260-270MBps copying files over SMB. The TP-Link was all over the place: sometimes 10MBps, sometimes 200MBps. At random it seemed to do 800MBps with no real reason I could determine. This was between two Samsung 980 Pros on either end, so no caching/overhead shenanigans in theory. I'd be happy with this product if it was simply plug and play and didn't drop connection - even if it couldn't actually handle 10gbit sustained. I rarely see over 3-4gbit with Google Fiber (real world, not speed test) and my NAS drives top out at just under 900MBps anyway.

Verizon Fios 5GB/s and this Network card is a dream come true!!! Getting 5.7GB/s speed. 1 Star less because this Network card has an issue with Aorus motherboards, The PCIE Slot its connected to has to be manually set to Gen 3 in Bios settings for this card to work, or else you will get constant disconnections. This can easily be resolved if they a release new drivers/firmware upgrade. Also make sure you plug in to the 10 GB port of your Verizon router(if you are not using your own) for the full 5GB/s speed. Other than that amazing product!

It works great! Im reaching the speed that I paid for (5gbps fiber). Follow the steps below to install drivers and configure the network settings Install Driver & Reboot: Download and install the latest Marvell AQtion 10GbE network driver, then restart your PC to apply the changes. You can find the driver on the web link provided with the card. ​Open Adapter Properties: Go to Control Panel > Network and Sharing Center > Change adapter settings. ​Configure Power Management: Right-click your 10GbE adapter, select Properties, click Configure, and go to the Power Management tab. ​Disable Power Saving: Uncheck Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power, then click OK. Hope this helps!

This is an initial review after unboxing and setting it up right out of the box. I have to say this is a very solid product. I am running a custom built PC and the drivers for my old card were causing system interrupts PC spikes and I had been thinking of getting a dual band card anyways so I finally decided to bite the bullet. I installed this card in an open PCIE x16 slot, which you can do. I've seen many questions answered with "If you have an open x1 slot it will fit" you may just make sure with your mobo you aren't taking lanes away from your graphics card (mine by default is running pcie slot 1 at x16 and slot 2 at x2 so I didn't have any bottleneck by adding an x1 card to slot 2 some boards the pcie ports share lanes) I had to do this because my x1 slot was blocked by my graphics card and liquid cpu cooler fan), turned everything on and inserted the CD. One feature that I absolutely love is the option to install the DRIVERS ONLY in the setup CD. Coming from my old D-LINK card that had no simple one click option to do this I was thrilled to have the option to just use the native windows network manager. Everything installed perfectly and immediately came up showing all available WiFi networks. I selected my 5ghz network and it connected immediately and I have had no issues yet. Speed from my ISP is solid although I have yet to test device to device transfer to see if this lives up to the 450 mbps claim. All in all it does everything I expected it to, and the fact that it allowed me to not install the Network Manager and install the driver only very quickly and easily is an added bonus, which I feel warrants the 5 star rating. If it keeps functioning how it has so far I will be extremely pleased. If it doesn't and I have any drops in connection, etc. I will update my review to reflect it.

Moving my computer away from the side of the UVerse modem for the first time, there isn't a whole lot of information on network adapters out there. I looked at a few sites, though, and this adapter seemed to be popular and effective, using one PCIe x16 slot. Installation was easy (what you see in the picture is the full-sized fitting for most computer cases; it also comes with a half-sized fitting for mini-ATX or something of the sort). Open case (safely), unscrew existing case panel for that slot, plug in card, screw this facepiece into place, close up the case, power on. I'm using Windows 10, for which there is no downloadable software...and that's okay. I added my network card's MAC address to my router (still had the Ethernet connected at this point), and went to the Networking app and clicked to add a new network. Windows found my new network adapter with ease, and after typing in my WiFi router's information I had a new connection for the internet. Disabled the LAN connection and I still had Internet! I was off and running. So far it's all pros and no cons. I'm getting 130 Mbps standard (which is faster than the UVerse speed itself), haven't had any dropped connections, and the signal is very strong a story and forty feet away. If you've got a desktop and want to add WiFi capabilities, this is a great option.

keep crashing during heavy usage, skip this and spend more for intel x550.

Produit reconditionné Amazon. Pas déçu, branché sur un port PCI Express x1, installation sans soucis via le mini CD, et débit présent : je capte le max de ma box fibre, soit 107 Mbps ultra stable, avec un chouette ping (même résultat par câble). Pourtant la box est à une bonne quinzaine de mètres, avec deux mûrs bétons (pas des simples cloisons...) : là où les PC portable on du mal à capter, un pauvre 15 Mpbs très instable, la carte ne rechigne pas.

E' un ottimo adapter, di facile installazione, con 3 antennine da 2dBi cadauna. Sconsiglio di cambiare le antenne con altre di tipo più potente come si legge in certi commenti. Ho fatto la prova da me e, a parte che in italia è illegale superare potenze di emissione superiori a 20dBi, ho provato a cambiare due antenne con tipi da 8dBi (quindi per un totale di 18dBi in totale) ma ho avuto solo peggioramenti (tramite inSSider ho visto che il fattore RSSI aveva dei peggioramenti) Per il montaggio bisogna solamente assicurarsi di avere uno slot PCIe libero sulla scheda madre, non è una operazione difficile, ma bisogna sapere dove mettere le mani. Il consiglio è quello di montare le antenne in modo che siano tutte in direzioni diverse, per garantire una ricezione più ottimale, se poi volete anche divertirvi, scaricate inSSider e controllate la qualità del segnale a seconda di come posizionate le antenne. Mi funziona su PC Windows 8.1 e su windows 10 (normalmente è montata sul win10, ma ho fatto la prova anche sul win 8.1)

excelente relacion precio calidad compre esta tarjeta por que mi computadora ya tiene 5 años entonces no quise comprar una muy cara pero esta esta excelente luego luego se instalo y tiene un alcance de señal magnifica y eso que hay varias paredes en mi casa de la compu al modem

18 months UPDATE: Pros: My three TP-Link 10Gb TX401 Ethernet cards are still working great. Two of them are installed on Asus Prime X299-A II motherboards, and the third one is installed on an ASUS TUF GAMING Z790-PLUS WIFI motherboard. Now connected with CAT6 cables at full 10Gb stable speed. Two of the cards are installed in Hyte Y60 cases hidden behind the vertical GPU with their included 8 cm low profile brackets. WoL works fine using the free "Wake on LAN (Magic Packet)" app from the Microsoft Store. Cons: Sometimes, randomly, after waking up the computer from sleep, the network card may take more than ten seconds before reconnecting to the network at 10Gb speed. But this happens quite rarely. Original review: Finally, an affordable 10Gb Ethernet network card with Wake-on-LAN (WoL) that works! The TP-Link 10Gb TX401 Ethernet card has a hardware design that supports Wake-on-LAN (WoL). Most other 10Gb Ethernet cards from other brands do not support WoL. When the PC is put to sleep mode, the TP-Link TX401 remains switched on and connected to the network while waiting for a Magic Packet to resume the PC if this option is enabled in Windows. To run properly at full 10Gb speed, the TP-Link TX401 network card must be installed in a PCIe 3.0 x4 expansion slot. It is also compatible with faster PCIe 4.0 x4 to x16 slots. The TP-Link TX401 has a Marvell (formerly Aquantia) AQtion AQC107 chipset. All three cards I bought had firmware version 3.1.100. Instead of using the drivers provided on the CD-ROM, I downloaded the latest official drivers and firmware from Marvell Public Driver Downloads website. In Category, select Marvell Public Drivers and in Part Number, select AQC107 and click Apply to view available downloads. I updated the cards to firmware 3.1.121, and I'm using Marvell Windows drivers version 3.1.7. For my LAN setup, the TP-Link TX401 cards are connected to a TRENDnet TEG-S750 5-Port 10GbE switch. The switch is also connected to the 10G Ethernet port of the Bell Giga Hub. Surprisingly, I get a stable 10 Gbps connection speed over CAT5e cables with a lenght of 40 feet max. Even though the 10G speed is perfectly stable, I will upgrade the cables to CAT6 to meet the minimum requirements for 10G Ethernet speed. Files copy between PCs are at full 1GB/s speed using NVMe drives. Of course, I get slower speed with SATA SSDs or HDD drives. For internet speed, I always get the full speed that the Bell Giga Hub gets because the LAN is not limited to a slower speed. The TP-Link TX401 will auto negociate with slower LAN speeds (100Mbps, 1Gbps, 2.5Gbps, 5Gbps). I tested it with an older TRENDnet TEG-S350 2.5GbE switch and it works just fine at 2.5G speed. So far, so good. Very happy with the result.