I have a personal bias toward 3Com, but I have to say: I bought some SMC
ethernet 100/Full CardBus (32-bit) NICs for $35/ea. about eight months
ago. And they are *amazing*. I get faster throughput on them than I do
on either my 3Com or Intel PCI cards -- a bit over 80 Mbit/s,
sustained. (And I mean for gigabytes and gigabytes -- MP3s, VOBs, tar
files, etc.) I have no idea if the voodoo that they do extends to their
PCI cards, but I just wanted to pipe up with a possible low-cost,
high-performance alternative.
-Ken
P.S. I have had some bad experiences with Intel EtherExpress Pro 100B
cards -- apparently, they get recognized as "-A" cards, and initialized
as same... with NT, it crashed the system, cold, and with Linux, it did
bad stuff, too. Note, however, that this was with a Tyan MB with a
somewhat iffy VIA chipset, and it may have been a confluence of stuff as
opposed to any single flaw in the Intel cards. (As another example,
with that same motherboard, and a Matrox G400, under W2K -- if *ANY* 3D
stuff was tried, at all (eg. screensavers, extruding elements in
Solidworks, etc.), the machine would freeze solid.)
On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 11:57, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote:
>
> I've literally used thousands of Intel pro100 (server and desktop versions)
> NICs and to date have had no problems with them yet. They just don't quit.
>
> At 11:40 AM 2/1/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> >Victor,
> >
> >IMHO (and this might get me flamed), 3com. I have tried a lot of other cards
> >and I have found that 3com's are well supported (by both linux and doze) and
> >just seem to keep running. 3com's are usually more expensive then the others,
> >but I feel the extra cost is worth having less aggravation.
> >
> >John
> >
> >On Friday 01 February 2002 11:40, Victor Julien wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I want to build a debian based router/gateway/fileserver/mailserver for a
> > > home network with 12 clients. It will be quite low budget as the server is
> > > a Pentium 166Mhz. I want the network to be 100mbit fullduplex, so I want to
> > > buy a Nic for the server. Which one is best for maximum performance and
> > > stability? Intel, 3com, SMC or just a cheap Realtek? I think the nic should
> > > be using the cpu as little as possible...
> > >
> > > Thanks for your advice,
> > >
> > > Victor Julien
> >
> >
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