On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 08:33, Jean-Francois Dive wrote: > i agree, but not specially for the hardware quality of the Pro/X intel card > serie, but for the quality of the driver which have been developed by intel > and give out very good perf. The core issue is the driver and not the hardware > in a lot of cases.
This is a very important point. Crap hardware with good drivers is better than good hardware with crap drivers. The more widespread a piece of hardware is, the more people care/work on the drivers, the better the drivers are. The crappy Realtek hardware works reliably for me... but admittedly I haven't pushed it hard or cared about performance. I know at least one person who abandoned an intel NIC for a Realtek because they couldn't get the intel working (probably at the time it was a case of a new NIC with no drivers yet, but still an issue). -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ABO: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more info, including pgp key ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
