I too have had great success w/ Netgear products. They are easy to install
and reliable, all with good support at http://netgear.baynetworks.com.
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Sent: Thursday, September 30, 1999 8:44 PM
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Subject: Re: BYU ethernet card
On Thu 30 Sep 1999 at 17:37:58, Matthew J. Probst muttered:
>
> > Sounds like the Y is being cheap and sending cheapie nics to you. Your
best
> > bet is to get a better NIC. You can get decent Nics for around $20-30
now
> > days.
>
> You want cheap ethernet cards|? go to www.lsmicro.com (based out of salt
> lake) here are the cards:
>
> 16Bit ISA Combo card coax/10BT $9
> 32Bit PCI Combo card coax/10Bt $9
>
> Realtek 8139A 32Bit PCI 10/100 card $11
>
> All three work great with Linux.. Thats right.. $11 for a 100Mb card
In my experience, Realtek cards are -- to put it simply -- not worth the
price even if they're free. I've had 2 fail on me, and they somehow
manage to get about 3 to 4 times the collision rate of other NIC's, and
their Windows drivers consistently suck (which I know doesn't matter
for Linux, but when a company can't even put together decent Windows
drivers you have to wonder about their hardware). My personal
recommendation is the Netgear FA310TX. It's 10/100, uses the tulip driver
(probably the most stable one for Linux), costs about $25, and I've
never had any Netgear product (I've owned hubs, switches, an ISDN
router, and NIC's) never so much as hiccup on me.
--
Soren Harward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://soren.cinternet.net/
"Never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately
explained by stupidity." -- Richard Feynmann
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