I can't speak to the actual USB device mentioned, but I bought a couple of Startech PCIe gigabit cards a few months back to add an extra set of interfaces on a pacemaker cluster and those cards turned out to be absolute crap. They would tend to go numb at random times and eventually require a server restart to recover. Instead of increasing uptime they drastically decreased it. They got ripped out *very* quickly. It kind of soured me on startech NICs. Devin