NETGEAR GA311 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Adapter

by Netgear

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.5 x 2 inches ; 2.1 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0001NYJ58
• Item model number: GA311NA
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 7, 2004

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The NETGEAR GA311 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Adapter offers: Gigabit speeds for fast data transfers. An auto-sensing port that eliminates manual switches. NETGEAR's Smart Wizard for painless installation.

The NETGEAR GA311 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Adapter provides your computer with fast 1000 Mbps performance that is up to ten times faster than Fast Ethernet and 100 times faster than 802.11b wireless.

At Gigabit speeds, even large video files are transferred quickly. View larger.

Easy to Install and Use
The GA311 works in both 3.3-volt and 5-volt PCI systems. NETGEAR's Smart Wizard Install Assistant gets everything up and running in minutes and the Performance Dashboard tracks your network performance.

Outstanding Performance and Unparalleled Reliability
At 1000 Mbps, even large video, CAD, and database files can be transferred over the network quickly. Since the port is autosensing, there is no need for manual switching; in addition to 1000 Mbps, the adapter will also work with 10 and 100 Mbps systems.

The adapter is compatible with 10 Mbps 10BASE-T, 20 Mbps full-duplex 10BASE-T, 100 Mbps 100BASE-TX, 200 Mbps full-duplex 100BASE-TX, and 1000BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet.

NETGEAR has a renowned reputation for reliability and the GA311 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Adapter is backed by a 1-year warranty.

What's in the Box
GA311 Gigabit PCI adapter, installation guide, resource CD, warranty/support information card

Product Description

Netgear Networking Card GA311NA 32-bit Gigabit PCI Adapter

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Customer Reviews

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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Supported by Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger & Tiger Server, April 6, 2006

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Gerrit Dewitt - See all my reviews
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This review is from: NETGEAR GA311 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Adapter (Personal Computers)

Besides being available at an excellent price, the Netgear GA311 Gigabit Ethernet card is supported natively by Mac OS X 10.4 and later and by Mac OS X Server 10.4 and later.

Even though the product mentions no support for either OS, the card will work without the need for any third party driver.

--Gerrit DeWitt
Apple Certified System Administrator

19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars There are other limitations to worry about aside from PCI, February 21, 2006

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BP - See all my reviews

This review is from: NETGEAR GA311 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Adapter (Personal Computers)

I rated it 4 stars because it does what it is supposed to do in windows. Also, a past reviewer was not entirely correct is his review... a PCI bus at 33MHz can transfer 133MBps (that's megabytes per second). To get Mbps (megabits per second) you multiply that by eight... giving you just over 1Gbps (gigabit, not gigabyte). This is a card designed to do just that.

In real life, you won't get that much throughput, because of shared bus I/O and other limitations. On the flip side, most home systems won't require this much bandwidth, even for file copies. Most hard disks cannot transfer 1Gbps sustained, which is 125MBps...(megabytes), unless you have newer SATA drives on both ends, you might get close. In my experience with this card running in PCI mode, I can transfer as fast as my disk can output, including RAID striped disks.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect match for Linux, October 3, 2007

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John F. Hubbard "Engineer, Naval Officer (vet.)" (San Jose, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: NETGEAR GA311 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Adapter (Personal Computers)

I picked this up after having some trouble with a few other network cards, while trying to get both kgdb support in Linux, and gigabit ethernet networking at the same time.

This card works perfectly with Linux, at least for the Redhat-based distros I've been dealing with lately. If you're compiling your network drivers into the kernel (not as kernel modules), for kernel 2.6.18 and later, just choose "Realtek 8169 gigabit ethernet support" in the kernel configuration and it will work.