Works out of the box but you need a driver to get the true 1gbps connection
Had a bad onboard NIC so I used this adapter to get me reconnected. The adapter itself is plug and play but in my case (and probably many others), it doesn't give the full bandwidth as the drivers are generic and it uses a special controller. I have 1gbps at the house but was pulling about 350mbps. Go to your hardware manager and type in the device name in google and download the appropriate driver. My device name was (ASIX AX88179A) The website where I got the driver was from asix.com.tw. After I updated the driver, I'm pulling down the correct speeds so it's working for now. Read more




















