Next message: Jay Strauss: "Re: [LUNI] What's the real deal with network cards"
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 21:42:38 -0600, "Jay Strauss"
<jjstrauss@yahoo.com> wrote:
>I was just at Microcenter picking up network cards. Cards with the rtl8139
>chip ranged from
>$9.75 (the ones I bought) to about $35. Is there any difference? Then
>there where cards (linksys)
>that used the tulip driver that ran from 25 - 45. Then there are other
>cards 3com, Intel, etc.. I don't know what chip and/or driver they use.
>
>Is there noticeable difference between the chips/drivers, in speed,
>compatibility, dependability?
I'm kind of suprised that you mention linksys as $25. When I upgraded
from 10mbs to 100mbs I bought a couple of Linksys network anywhere
cards for $10 per. They seem to work fine to me. But then I don't have
a network that is saturated with traffic.
One of the problems that occurs with these cards is that they are hard
to configure when installing Mandrake 7.2, but after installation it's
no problem to configure them.
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