Recommend a good quality NIC card for my server

[GCS]

Looking for a good quality NIC for the server.

Server is just a Windows 7 Machine. About 7 computers attach to it in my office and at night maybe 2 computers attach via a VPN connection.

Looking for something good quality that will slow down the network traffic.

Currently I believe we have problem the one in the server at the moment (basic 10/100/1000 Intel NIC)

Thanks in advance

Greg

 

[JackMDS]

The Intel card is good enough for a peer-to-peer computer called Server.

What the problems are?


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[BTA]

If an Intel NIC isn't working then your problem is most likely something else.

 

[imagoon]

Is the Intel Nic bad? Describe "the problem." Intel is pretty much top notch for NICs.

 

[GCS]

No it is definitely the NIC. I put another spare NIC we had in there and the problems went away.

Problems were very slow transfer speeds, programs took forever to pull data from the server and internet was terrible slow. DSL speedtest show 2mb down 15 up but we are on a 35/35 FIOS connection. NIC swap yielded 32/29 speeds now.

Basically just looking to see what I should put in there as I full time replacement.

Greg

 

[Crusty]

Are you sure it wasn't a cabling problem? What about drivers? Intel NICs really are top notch, I wouldn't run anything but them in my servers. Is your current one an onboard one or addon card?

 

[GCS]

Positive it is not cabling as all of that was tested and certified just recently since we had a Verizon phone issue and they blamed it on our wiring.

NIC was an Intel on board which may have been the issue.

Swap out to the spare one we had (pulled from a dormant computer) has solved the issue for now.

Greg

 

[imagoon]

No it is definitely the NIC. I put another spare NIC we had in there and the problems went away.

Problems were very slow transfer speeds, programs took forever to pull data from the server and internet was terrible slow. DSL speedtest show 2mb down 15 up but we are on a 35/35 FIOS connection. NIC swap yielded 32/29 speeds now.

Basically just looking to see what I should put in there as I full time replacement.

Greg

Replace it with another Intel Nic. It is rare but they do go bad. The only "second" one I would look at is Broadcom. And to be honest, only recent Broadcom gear.

 

[spidey07]

This has all the tellings of a duplex mismatch. Make sure both the switchport and NIC are set to autonegotiate or both sides hard set speed and duplex.

 

[GCS]

First thing I checked has we have everything in our office hard set to 10/100 Full Duplex to avoid any auto negotiate issues (can't run 1000 as our Cisco equipment is not 1000).

Greg

 

[gsaldivar]

Is your "server" running a server edition of Windows, or just a desktop version of Windows 7...?

 

[Emulex]

broadcom
versus
intel

fight!!

 

[imagoon]

First thing I checked has we have everything in our office hard set to 10/100 Full Duplex to avoid any auto negotiate issues (can't run 1000 as our Cisco equipment is not 1000).

Greg

Not being on auto-neg causes more issues than auto-neg does.