EOL Quad Port NIC Replacement

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Hello all. As a fan of the YT channel these forums seemed to be a great place to ask for advice or recommendations.

I recently started working for a company that builds audio simulation software and hardware. While I am a PC hardware fan, networking is not my forte. The systems that I have been building are on rather outdated hardware and the NICs that we use, the Intel E1G44ET2, have been EOL for a long time now and have turned into unobtanium. I am looking for a new NIC that can replace the EOL Intel unit. The requirements are that it be readily available new in box, and be a quad port Gigabit card, preferrably by Intel and not overly expensive. Roughly in the $150-$200 range or less.

Thanks for the help and I look forward to your replies. Have a great day all!

Edit- Further info in case it helps. The NIC will be used in a 2U chassis via a riser card so it will need to be low profile.

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You are looking for I350-AM4. Latest intel product in the segment and still in production.

It just 13 years old (sic) :slight_smile:

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Everything that’s 1Gbit is going to be rather old, BCM5719 is about the same in terms of age.

What might be of interest is something like this QXG-2G4T-I225 | Flexible, fast, economical | QNAP or PCIe x4 to 4-Port 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet Card Intel I225v3 Chipset Network Expansion Card PXE, Wake-On-LAN – Zima Store Online (Google says it’s a PCIe x4 to 4 Ports 10/100/1000M/2.5G Ethernet Card,IO-PCE225S-4GLAN - PCIe - Networking - My web ) which features newer controller(s).

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Lets hope they are finally usable on 2,5GBASET nowadays. Those were suprisingly shitty controllers from intel, 2,5GBASET controller that can reliably work only on GBE :slight_smile: is not something you would expect.

Still better than realtek though, but what isnt.

EDIT: misremembered and corrected

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I’ve been using rev B3 just fine and haven’t heard anything about i226 either. There are a lot of questionable designs using these chips however and I wouldn’t count on that people use decent cabling either.

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Hmm, now i remember why there were burned to my memory as “avoid”, there is seeming lack of i226 base AIC cards and with i225, you cannot be sure which chip revision you get.

I225 V1 and V2 were troublesome and more or less unfixable, v3 should have been okay on linux. Windows drivers were reportedly other story.

There are however still continuing report of random and upredictable network disconnections on i225v3 or even on i226 :person_shrugging: Not something I want to spend 100+ USD for.

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Thank you all for quick replies. I will look at the suggestions and see what works best for us. I knew I came to the right place. :grinning:

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