Was looking for a frugal multiport NIC card to play around with in my homelab. It’s not intel, it’s not 10G or 2.5G but for a simple homelab to experiment with, $23 works. Reviews seem okay and looks like Realtek and works with Proxmox and pfsense. 5 Left at time of posting;
IOCrest SI-PEX24042 4 Port Gigabit Ethernet PCI-E x1 Network Interface Card
About this item:
4 Gigabit Ethernet ports
10/100/1000Mbps data rate auto negotiation operation
Features full duplex mode that doubles the network connections speed
Fully compliant with IEEE802.3, 802.3u and 802.3ab
Supports WOL (wake-On-LAN) function
Statistics: Posted by Canadianmist — Feb 12th, 2026 9:57 am