With speeds ten times faster than Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet is the new standard for broad-bandwidth networking. Give your high-powered workstations or network servers up to 2Gbits/sec (full-duplex mode) of dedicated bandwidth with the StarTech.com ST1000BT32, a 10/100/1000 Mbits/sec Gigabit PCI networking card for 32-bit systems. The card complies with IEEE 802.3ab Gigabit Ethernet standards and offers advanced features like Jumbo Packet support to keep your high-performance applications and devices operating at their maximum capacity.

The card supports both full- and half-duplex communications and uses Auto-Negotiation to ensure backwards-compatibility with 100BaseTx and 10BaseT Ethernet standards. The ST1000BT32 is Plug and Play compatible and works with Cat 5e and above Ethernet cables, so your migration to Gigabit Ethernet doesn't mean a total network overhaul.