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Subject: Re: Good, cheap 100BaseT Ethernet cards?
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The best price I have found on the Intel 10/100 cards is BUY.COM in the
low $40's.

--Brett
 

At 09:00 AM 12/24/98 -0600, Bruce Albrecht wrote:
 
>Mark turpin writes:
> > On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Brett Glass wrote:
> > 
> > > I'm looking for some good, cheap 100BaseT Ethernet cards which are
> > > supported by drivers included with FreeBSD. Unfortunately, the ones listed
> > > in the "Readme" are "name brands" -- and are going for $80-100 instead of
> > > the $20 that most people seem to be paying for Ethernet NICs for WinDoze.
> > > For example, the Netgear FA310TX is priced in the mid-$20's and comes from
> > > a reputable company, but I can't tell if it will work.
> > > 
> > 	RealTek 8139 based card.   They are 10/100Mbps PCI, work with
> > FreeBSD (rl0 driver), and you can get them for $15-$20.  I have about
> > 20 of them.
>
>I have a $20 RealTek 8139 card, and while it's rock solid and gives
>reasonable transfer rates at 10 Mbps, it's only capable of doing about
>50 Mbps sustained transfers in 100 Mbps mode and eats up 25% of a 200
>MHz PPro's CPU.  And that was before Bill Paul made it copy buffers
>nearly all the time because of alignment problems I reported with PPP
>traffic.  If I find an Intel EtherExpress 100 for < $40, I'm going to
>replace the RealTek in a shot.


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