- PC Card provides Gigabit Ethernet functionality
- Auto-sensing port eliminates need for manual switching
- Smart Wizard makes installation a breeze
- Backed by 1-year warranty
- Device measures 4.38 x 0.56 x 2.13 inches (WxHxD)
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Installing the GA511 requires insertion into an open 32-bit CardBus slot and installation of the included software. NETGEAR's Smart Wizard Install Assistant has you up and running in fewer than five mouse clicks. Included in the software is the Performance Dashboard that monitors the actual speed.
Outstanding Performance and Unparalleled Reliability
At 1000 Mbps, even large video, CAD, and database files can be transferred over the network quickly. In addition to 1000 Mbps systems, the adapter will also work with 10 and 100 Mbps systems; since the port is autosensing, there is no need for manual switching.
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.
The NETGEAR GA511 Gigabit Ethernet PC Card is backed by a 1-year warranty.
What's in the Box
GA511 Gigabit PC Card, installation guide, resource CD, warranty/support information card
Product Description
As networking technology continues to evolve, the needs for a wired network continue to expand, be it in the home or office. A home user may find his existing Ethernet or Wi-Fi wireless network inadequate for transferring movies and home video files to his notebook PC. The office environment may be dealing with new, large varieties of software files that strain their existing Fast Ethernet connections, causing monotonous delays. The NETGEAR GA511 Gigabit PC Card allows any network to be supercharged with gigabit speeds when used with a Gigabit Ethernet switch. Experience speeds up to 10 times faster than Fast Ethernet and 100 times faster than 802.11b wireless. Take your network experience to the next level with an upgrade to Gigabit Ethernet via the GA511.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Works as expected,
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I bought this card for use with a linux laptop (Dell Inspiron 5100). And it worked right out of the box. I am running Fedora Core 6. Keep in mind that you wont be able to get the full gigabit speeds with a PCMCIA card. My cursory testing got me around 380Mbps.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Works like a charm,
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Other than some typos in the install instructions the installation went quite well. It is odd that Netgear have you type in the path to the setup file instead of automatically launching it for you. This may confuse someone with no computer expertise but the average user should have no problems. Had to deduct a star for this drawback.
The card auto negotiated to 1.0Gbps first time and has worked flawlessly with the drivers that came with the product. I did not have any of the problems to other reviewer here did. I did not experience quite the speed boost I was looking for, but this may be due to a limitation of the laptop rather than the adapter. Older laptops may not benefit from the extra network speed.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not fully tested - should however work,
By Dinko B "Dinko" (USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: NETGEAR GA511 Gigabit Ethernet PC Card (Personal Computers)
I wanted to elaborate something on Ghost and NDIS drivers. True, the CD didn't have the NDIS driver but there is an alternate source.
I didn't have any difficulty installing this on an XP machine. Speed was ok, but I think this would be as good as it gets considering notebook PC's. For Example I have gotten about 20% of improvement sending data over 10/100 network card which is onboard Intel. However, receiving data was about 50% percent of improvement but I still can't claim for sure. Regardless it wasn't worth the money (I'll be honest I bought it elsewhere locally). Much better price and similar performance was Trendnet TEG-PCBUSR Gigabit PCMCIA network adapter. I am still not happy with the speed but like I mentioned, likely as good as it gets. Realtek network cards have been very good to me so no complains there since they are getting their drivers updated frequently, even for DOS. About the Ghost; Trendnet TEG-PCBUSR offers DOS driver for the Realtek 8169 PCMCIA based network cards. Files required are RTPCI.EXE and RTBIOS.COM that will open up the PCMCIA port in DOS mode. Then load the .dos driver. This """should""" (not tested and I repeat NOT TESTED) work for this card as well, since its Realtek 8169. However, you can't use standard ghost boot disk as loading RTPCI.EXE and RTBIOS.COM through config.sys will crash the PC. Instead one should use something like netbootdisk by easily appending these two files to floppy and autoexec.bat. However, don't expect a great performance, 280 Megabytes per minute at most. Absolute winner (for me) in PCMCIA Ghost performance is Netgear FA511 (380 Megs per minute) but it's also least compatible. FA511 is the same as COMPUSA 10/100 card (They are both ADMTek based adapter and both tested fine) and they have both exceeded the onboard Broadcomm 440 / 330 Megabytes per minute. Based on that GA511 will likely work with Ghost on older laptops where FA511 I couldn't get to work (3 out of 7 laptops would work with Netgear Fa511). And if you want something to work with every laptop though slow, get Netgear FA411 (16 bit, 40 - 80 megabytes per minute but it won't stall - tested on 9 laptops at least). All in all, I am planning to purcahse this card to do some more testing.
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