>>>>> "st" == Scott Tyson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
st> ********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********
st> On 5/27/98, at 2:09 AM, William T Wilson wrote:
>> On Tue, 26 May 1998, Scott Tyson wrote:
>>
>>> DONT GET AN NE2000 CLONE!!! Although cheap (20 bucks for pci) they are
>>> SLOW. Its an ISA card stuck onto a PCI bus. I started with this since
>>
>> Not the ISA ones. :) Since he's looking for an ISA card I don't see this
>> as a problem. Although the ancient NE2000 design is perhaps not the most
>> optimally suited to the PCI bus, it's still not terrible and as you
>> mentioned you can't beat the price. It performs surprisingly well for the
>> price, I have used them (ISA ones no less) in sustained 1Mb/sec
>> transmission and found very little performance degradation, this on a
>> slow (100MHz) Pentium.
st> have many a post about ne2000 vs 3com isa cards and the 3com is a faster
st> card if you can believe what you read.
>>
>> Tulip and 3com cards are probably better cards offering better performance
>> with less CPU load (the Tulip cards especially) but the NE2000's are good
>> too. And the design of the 3com cards is surprisingly similar to that of
>> the NE2000's in that (at least for ISA, I don't know about the PCI) they
>> are both Programmed I/O (high performance but high CPU load) instead of
>> shared memory type cards (which have lower performance but lower CPU load
>> also). :)
>>
>> Another advantage to the NE2000 cards is that you'll have to drive all
>> over town looking for a Tulip card, and you'll probably end up having to
>> order it from back stock in Zimbabwe. But you can find NE2000 cards in
>> the check out counter at the supermarket and as likely as not in your
>> grandmother's attic if you're inclined to look there. Barnes and Noble
>> has started giving them away instead of bookmarks and in Silicon Valley
>> sometimes they fall out of the sky instead of rain. In short you will
>> probably have an easier time finding an NE2000. :)
st> Actually I only found 1 pci ne2000 card, although I was not looking at isa
st> cards. I found about 6 DEC/Tulip cards lined up next to each other.
>>
>>> was the only card RH 5.0 would recognize during install. Get a full
>>> duplex card. You can find 3com for about 50 bucks (10baseT only) or you
>>
>> Full duplex in the sense of separate transmit and receive cables is almost
>> never useful. If that is not the sense of full duplex which you are
>> referring to, then what do you mean?
st> Again from what I've read from news group posts and various packaging/web
st> pages, a full duplex card can push more data (up to double) though the bus
st> than a half or no duplexing card. I have no idea as to the technology but
st> my linksys card claims a 132 mb/second transfer rate. My isp also
st> recommended that I get a full duplex card for better performance.
Check out the simple Netgear FA310 which uses a Dec21140 chipset and
is very well supported and fast. This board is used in the Beauwolf
project. It uses the Tulip driver and is a 10/100 Mbps pci card.
A cheap card about $30-$35 and IMO a much better choice than any
NE2000 card.
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