content: I'm a big fan of SMC products and this one is no exception. For a little bit more money than their competitors they give you a more solid, more capable product. In this case, it is support for jumbo frames that sets them apart. Jumbo frames are longer-than-normal data packets that really cut down on overhead and are really needed to take full advantage of Gigabit Ethernet. SMC supports them, but as far as I know Linksys, D-Link, Netgear, etc. do not.In any case, this was easy plug-and-play on my Windows 2000 machine, and now it is happily serving files over the network almost as fast as it serves files on the local machine. Highly recommended.