Sonnet Presto Solo 10GBASE-T Ethernet 1-Port PCIe Card [Thunderbolt Compatible]

This card was completely plug and play for Windows 11. I was able to install in into 2 different computers, 2 Intel Core i9’s and 1 Intel Core i7 and restarted each computer and it automatically found the drivers DHCP’ed the IP address and worked perfectly. Since these were addin cards to existing working computer’s I left the original 1GbE card connected to the LAN until after the restart just in case it needed to update any drivers then unplugged the 1GbE adapter and restarted once more and everything came up working perfectly at 10GbE. Couldn’t be happier.

I already have a network of several computers using their built-in 1GB ethernet. However, when I record and move files to my media server, they routinely can be 10+GB in size so it was taking better than several minutes. With 10GB Ethernet, I'm able to transfer at whatever the slowest storage drive's speed is (my main computer has NVMe drives, so the RAID5 in my Server is the new "bottleneck" at around 500MB a second, but that's over 5x what I was getting from the built-in Ethernet!) I bought two cards specifically to connect my main computer to my media server with a 10GB connection (the built-in 1GB ethernet is perfectly fine for everything else, including internet) and they work perfectly together. Sonnet is traditionally a Mac company, however these are installed in a Windows 10 PC and a Debian Linux server and the build quality and performance is excellent. In case I ever replace either with a Mac, I'm now covered with that too.

It works well when first installed and used. But it stopped working after a week. So I was not using it. I installed it again. It worked. But it also only took a day or two. I asked for an exchange and received an e-mail to contact the RMA department. I sent an e-mail to the RMA, but I could not get any further contact. Do not you have to let me know if you can exchange or not? There is no contact. I had to give up liaison and exchange. I live in Korea and can not speak English well. It is the worst.

I bought this because it claims to support AVB, but there is no windows driver or app to actually make use of it...so I don't understand the point. I guess if you have a MAC they have native support for avb so it might work fine for MAC.

This card is the exact equivalent of a standard Aquantia AQN-107 card but with a Mac compatible firmware. It works as expected connected to my CAT5E network with speeds negotiated at 5Gbps in my case. Everything was plug and play. For a Windows/Linux PC only experience it's cheaper to simply buy an AQN-107 card, if you want it on a Mac embedded in a thunderbolt enclosure for example don't bother dealing with the firmware/drivers convolutions of other cards, this card is right for you.

I used this with my Hackintosh (High Sierra) as a connection between my pc and my 10G networking equipment. Operated at full 10G speeds. Plug and play with OSX however I did have to install a driver for Windows 10 1903. Would I recommend this to others? Yes

I installed this card into Sonnet Echo Express SE1. Connect to 2016 MacBook Pro through Thunderbolt 3, network cable direct connect to Synology NAS. When testing SMB the speed hit 8xxMB/s. Sounds great! 3 months later, when I use Presto Solo again, some high frequency noise when plugging the network cable then stop working, no lights on network port. It only happen when using 10Gbps, but works if I connect to 1Gbps network. :S

I had the first revision of the card and it was a bad experience. After speaking with Sonnet support, I waited for their revision "B" cards to be released and gave it another go. Of course, YOUR MILEAGE MAY VARY...greatly. I have a Mac Pro 5,1 running OS 10.13.6 piping directly into a 10GbE server. I'm using a CAT6 cable but I'm probably 20ft (6m) of wire away from the server - well within the range for 10GbE speeds. Currently, I'm getting 410 MB/s write / 250 MB/s read. Not great speeds, wish the read speed was faster. I have 2 Mac Pro 6,1 computers on the same network, same CAT6 cable, with a SanLink 2 adapter and they're achieving 650 write / 600 read. Pretty big difference but then again, there's also a significant price difference between the 2 adapters and there could be limitations with the Mac Pro 5,1. In conclusion, for the price, it's not bad if you need more than gigabit speeds, I wish, in my case, read speeds were faster. If I had the time/effort/money, I'd try the Akitio card with the TN4010 controller, or the SmallTree P2E10G-1-T and compare the results. In my findings, there's not a lot of choices for 10GbE cards for the classic Mac Pro tower (5,1). Notes: R/W speeds tested via Blackmagic Disk Speed Test app. I did experiment with duplex settings and MTU (1500 vs Jumbo) but didn't see any better results than the one reported above. --------------------------- Original 2 Star Review: No matter what I did, my speeds with the card were only 11MB/s Read and Write. I switched back to my original gigabit port and saw better speeds. Sonnet Tech support was fast and efficient, though, and they agreed the card sounded like it was faulty. I returned it after my initial findings.

Using it in both my HP workstation and also my Mac via a TB enclosure. Works great :) remember to enable jumbo frame!

Nach dem Upgrade auf Big Sur ging in meinem OWC Helios Gehäuse die 10 GBIT Karte von QNap nicht mehr, wurde nicht mehr erkannt, habe mir darum die Sonnet 10 GBIT Karte geholt, die funktioniert wieder auf Anhieb ohne irgend welche Experimente mit Kext Treibern usw.

Works great for me on my Hackintosh :) not sure I'm getting the full 10gbps but not tested extensively and still a drastic improvement over 1gig (and enough for me to be able to edit 4k footage over LAN, which is what I needed!)

Macでリンクアップするんだけど何故か通信ができない

Angenehm schnelle Karte, funktionierte auf Anhieb unter Windows 10. Es empfiehlt sich direkt auf die Marvell Seite zu gehen und dort zunächst die aktuellen Treiber und neue Firmware zu laden. Mit meiner Synology 1819+ konnte ich über ein fast 20 Jahre altes Cat5e Kabel (aber damals schon doppelt geschirmt) mit ca. 40m Länge + 2*3m Patchkabel die 10GE erreichen. Nicht so gut und daher nur 4 Sterne sind Konfiguration, Stromverbrauch und Wärme. Konfiguration: Energie Efficient Ethernet ist in der Voreinstellung bei Win 10 aus (im Windows Gerätemanager einstellen) Stromverbrauch: 10Watt verbraucht der PC nun mehr Wärme: Der Kühlkörper ist zu klein und wird sehr warm. Problem mittels Noctua 40x10 PWM Lüfter und Kabelbinder!!! gelöst. Wenn jemand einen guten Befestigungsclip empfehlen könnte....