Another note of interest, IBM makes (or made) and sells (or sold :-) 10/100 ISA NIC's
that work dandy in a Non PNP enviroment, throw in a 3c509B for the cable modem, and
your ready to go. Of course there are always drivers to get and put in, but I'll bet
there out there somewhere.
--
On Sun, 04 Feb 2001 12:51:54
Weijer, Oscar J. wrote:
>Thanks for your reply guys!
>I will try to solve the problem and inform you :)
>
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>Van: Arnie Rothenbaum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Verzonden: zondag 4 februari 2001 7:27
>Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Onderwerp: Re: [STN] Realtek8139
>
>Jim,
>
>Some things to consider before you "jump in the water".
>
>I had heard that most cable modems use a 10MB port. (And I wonder, now
>after saying this here, if some folks have had issues because they are
>using 100MB cards connected to their cable modems. I remember one guy
>who kept losing his connection. Maybe his card was autosensing and kept
>switching back to 100MB when it lost connection to the cable?)
>
>The point here, is that since the bottleneck is cable (1.5MB) then I
>would think that the 10MB card is fine for outbound (It just jump to the
>cable modem and then it is in their world). A 100MB card for the inside
>LAN will at least feed the data faster around the LAN side. I would
>suggest that you just switch your cards in your STN box to just 10MB
>10Base-T. Then get a 10/100 hub/router on your network. Use 100MB NICs
>on the LAN workstations. Again the STN inbound is probably only going
>to be as fast as the cable (1.5) anyway. I wouldn't expect the bottle
>neck to be so bad with 10MB NICs. Once it gets to the hub, the uplink
>to the workstations is 100MB (especially on a router with each port at
>100MB). Or you can go 50/50, and get a slightly older motherboard with
>PCI and ISA slots. This way you can go 10MB on the ISA and 100MB on the
>PCI (especially if you try the two 100MB cards and then have trouble
>like oweljr did).
>
>That is what I am thinking of doing. I have STN with COAX LAN NIC to an
>older 10BaseT hub with a coax backbone. My workstations are 10BaseT
>10MB NICs (kept tripping over the coax lines - screwing up the
>connectors - and bringing things down - had enough of that. Actually
>bought combo cards at the time.) Probably will need to change my STN
>LAN side COAX NIC to 10Base-T or just uplink my current 10Base-T hub to
>the new 10/100 router (seeing that I already have the hub).
>
>All in all, 6 workstations in my office running at 10MB is really just
>fine.
>
>Arnie
>
>Jim Harris wrote:
>>
>> Arnie,
>>
>> Good reply!
>>
>> I am thinking about upgrading my network to 100-base-t (& getting rid
>of
>> my coax backbone!) now that I have cable. Unfortunately, (it would
>> seem) all 100-base-t cards are PCI - so I would have to do an upgrade
>to
>> a PCI based system.
>>
>> Most of the PCI stuff I have seen is auto-set (like you said), but it
>> would be interesting if you could "fix" the setting for a slot.
>>
>> I will have to look into this myself.
>>
>> Jim
>>
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