TP-Link 2.5GB PCIe Network Card (TX201) – PCIe to 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet Network Adapter, Supports Windows 11/10/8.1/8/7, Win Server 2022/2019/2016, Linux

This card works as advertised and is so simple and quick to install. We have 1GB fiber at our house but my main computer was only getting 150MB download because I had to use a USB to ethernet adapter (ABLEWE 3-Port USB 3.0 Hub with RJ45 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter) after lighting fried my original ethernet card.The whole process of installing the TP-Link 2.5GB card from turning off the computer, installing the card, rebooting, and running a speed test was less than 5 minutes! Finally, as another reviewer noted, I did not need the driver disk, Windows 11 automatically recognized the card.

I bought this card because of a faulty internal card on my PC. This was plug and play. It operates at much faster speeds than my internal card and keeps a constant connection. The drivers installed automatically and this was a great value buy.

I had no issues installing the card itself and getting it to perform as described in the product description, and I do see greater than 1 Gb/sec download speeds on my PC with this card (when connected to the 2.5 Gbe port on my router) when testing with Speedtest. The only thing that I had to deal with (which is why I knocked it down a star) is that, when installed on a Windows 10 PC and using either the generic Windows 10 built-in ethernet driver or the TP-Link sourced driver, I discovered that if I use sleep mode to turn off my PC the LAN port on the card will turn off--meaning, when I subsequently wake up my PC from sleep mode it will fail to automatically reconnect to my router (and thus, to the internet). I narrowed it down to it most likely being an Ethernet driver issue because when I was using the built-in Intel LAN controller on the motherboard my PC had no problem automatically re-establishing a LAN connection to my router when I woke it up from sleep.Figuring that it was most likely an issue with the ethernet driver I tried an updated driver I downloaded from the TP-Link website--still the same issue, and yes this is even though I went into Windows Device Manager and unchecked the box for "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" (more on that part in a moment). I then tried the Realtek ethernet driver for it (downloaded from Realtek's website)--I first tried the "Win10 Auto Installation Program (NDIS) - Not Support Power Saving" driver since I was thinking I don't want power saving because I don't want my ethernet card to go to sleep and thus turn off; you'd think that with that description on the download page it should work--nope, same behavior. I then figured what have I got to lose, and went ahead and downloaded the "Win10 Auto Installation Program (NDIS)" driver--holy smokes, this one apparently did the trick because now when I wake up my PC from sleep the TP-Link LAN card successfully automatically reconnects to my router and establishes an internet connection once again!Now back to the part about unchecking the box for "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power"--oddly enough, with the correct driver in place I (still) had to actually check the box for this setting in order for the TP-Link card to automatically reconnect to my router after waking up my PC from sleep; if I unchecked it, the unwanted behavior returned even with the correct driver in place. Note--you can still leave the box for "Allow the device to wake the computer" unchecked.I spent hours trying all kinds of different suggested solutions that were offered up on the internet to fix this issue, and am glad I was finally able to figure it out; without this solution/fix my only options were to either do a manual "disable/enable" of the connection in the Windows 10 network settings or reboot my PC (doing the latter would make it pointless to put my PC in sleep mode to begin with). Hopefully this helps out someone who's running Windows 10 and utilizes sleep mode to turn off their PC.

Funciona muy bien, hay que descargar e instalar drivers para que funcione bien.

A beast network card from a reputable network brand! This was needed to upgrade my slow motherboard LAN, which caps out at only 980 Mbps, and my modem has a 2 Gbps plan where a faster card can make use of my bandwidth. The installation was very easy as it just plugs into the smaller PCIEX1_1 slot with no problems. As soon as you boot into Windows 11, the drivers will automatically get installed, so the internet will work a few minutes after reboot. It’s plug and play! It works so well, and I’m getting very fast 2 Gbps speeds. Faster downloads hooray!

I got FIOs and realized my main work computer was only using 1/2 my available bandwidth, so I bought this card. I am able to easily hit the 2 Gig bandwidth now that my ISP provides. I looked at other nics and this one was cheaper. I find it a good value for the money. I just plugged it into my computer and it just worked, no driver issues. Im running Ubuntu 25. I like the small form factor of the card. Seems fairly durable. I would recommend buying this again.

Works great! Plugged it in and I'm now getting over 2 gig on my speed tests. Easy install.

Easy to install, bracket lined up nicely, a good choice if you're internet service provides up to 2.5Gbps but your PC doesn't have an ethernet port to support the speed.Do your research before buying, for many people this item is not necessary.

Muy mala calidad!, se pierde la conectividad a cada rato!

Worked good for me. I have a NAS and this more than saturates the connection. My current bottleneck if the read/write speed on the drives but I tested this with a m.2 NAS and was able to get close to expected speedsGood price and super slim. My GPU leaves barely any space but it was able to fitWebsite was easy to find and drivers are right there. Just go on the website and download the current drivers or you will be running a 1.0 old driver that might or might not work for you

Mi internet no es muy rápido pero se siente más estable con este adaptador de 2.5GB.

Works well, I installed this in my home computer and it was a breeze for windows to find it and install the drivers. The speeds are at 1000 ghz due to my network wiring is rated at 1 ghz.