upgrading PC LAN to 10GbE

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We’re doing some planning now in anticipation of upgrading our LAN to 10GbE.

Latest steps purchased 2 x TP-Link TX401 10GbE PCIe adapters.

Both installed EZ in Windows 10 workstations, but failed to install the supplied device driver in a Windows 7 Ultimate x64 PC.

Oddly, a StarTech ST10GSPEXNB did install OK in the latter Win7 PC, after we disabled signature enforcement temporarily, using “Method 1” described here:

https://www.trishtech.com/2011/05/installing-unsigned-drivers-in-windows-7/

But, “Method 1” did NOT work for the TP-Link TX401.

I’ve emailed a technical support request to TP-Link bc their TX401 product specs clearly state compatibility with Windows 7 (x32 and x64).

https://www.tp-link.com/us/home-networking/pci-adapter/tx401/

I’ll update this topic if/when I hear from them.

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We just upgraded our Internet cable modem to 1G, and it’s working great.

That modem feeds a quality 1G router.

That router feeds unmanaged switches downstream.

The ambitious plan is to upgrade switches with TP-Link models TL-SX1008, and TL-SX105 downstream of the TL-SX1008:

https://www.tp-link.com/us/business-networking/unmanaged-switch/tl-sx1008/

https://www.tp-link.com/us/business-networking/unmanaged-switch/tl-sx105/

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