Intel Ethernet Drivers

Among several NUC's at home, I replaced a 5th gen NUC with this 13th gen model. It serves as a media center for my music and photo collection, hence the 1 TB SSD and 16 GB memory. For those unfamiliar with the Intel NUC product line, they are small (4x4), very quiet, well-engineered and supported by a three-year warranty. Over the years, I have installed dozens for customers and not a single one has failed so far. The performance is impressive. The clip that keeps the power cord from inadvertently being yanked out is a fairly recent and useful addition. Intel has excellent documentation (assembly instructions, product specs) that I recommend. During installation of Windows 11, neither the wired Ethernet nor the Wi-Fi adapter were recognized which required an Ethernet-to-USB adapter. Others may add the network drivers during installation. Installing the Intel Driver & Support Assistant gets the optimal BIOS, firmware and drivers in place. Now that Intel has sold the NUC line to Asus, I hope that they will continue the development and support of this great product.

The most important thing about this is that it uses an Intel Chipset and therefore does not need any custom drivers. It'll just work out of the box with Windows 11. The one surprise to me was that you do need a USB 2.0 header free on your motherboard to enable bluetooth, but that's not this card's fault, just something to remember! Tested it in an RF-noisy lab environment the Bluetooth was a little crackly at times, and the antennas are a little difficult to tighten so they don't fall out, but overall I would recommend this. TPLink is now a solid brand in wireless and I have no doubt this will work for the remainder of my PC's lifetime.

Worked as advertised when connected to laptop via ethernet plug for broadband service. Fortunately, there was no need for the drivers and whatever else is on the included disk, since I cut it in half while opening its plastic packaging.

Ethernet cables are ethernet cables, but these are fine!

Intel the best

you have to install the drivers for this to work...

Plug it in, install the drivers and off you go.

Well, it's Intel and that says it all

Had the key quickly after purchase and redeemed with intel without any issue. Intel also threw in some additional perks for signing up a new account with them. Lovely :)

It was hard to get a direct answer about how to get a 4th monitor to work on an intel based laptop. The problem is that the Intel CPU only allows 3 displays, even if you have a dedicated GPU in the laptop because the GPU isn't a full gpu, but just an extra chip that runs through the Intel CPU. Since it runs through the intel CPU, it is limited by the same 3 display output as the CPU. This allows you to run more than 3 displays on a single laptop.