From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 13 22:38:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mtiwmhc21.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc21.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03D1E37B409 for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 22:38:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from achornback@worldnet.att.net) Received: from tomcat ([12.93.208.96]) by mtiwmhc21.worldnet.att.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with SMTP id <20010814053823.IJVS12706.mtiwmhc21.worldnet.att.net@tomcat>; Tue, 14 Aug 2001 05:38:23 +0000 From: "Andrew C. Hornback" To: "Rick Hamell" Cc: "FreeBSD-questions" Subject: RE: Network cards: 3com XL rumour ... Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 01:38:18 -0400 Message-ID: <000301c12483$5291ff20$5cd05d0c@tomcat> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Rick Hamell > Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 1:22 AM > To: Andrew C. Hornback > Cc: FreeBSD-questions > Subject: RE: Network cards: 3com XL rumour ... > > > And the good news, aside from SMC's lifetime free tech > support (which is > > great, BTW), these cards can be had for under $20 (I picked up > my last batch > > of them at $5 each). > > Which is why I like Kingstons... same driver, bit more expensive, > but they seem to be a bit faster card. I notice a speed differance between > SMC and Kingston, same with Linksys versus most other brands. :) Eh, I've seen too many off brand NICs go bad... Linksys and D-Link cards being the chief offenders. As far as SMC vs. Kingston... it's a matter of chip implementation, and considering that very few of the applications/situations where I've installed an SMC required massive throughput, that problem has never really cropped up for me. If a client calls and complains why their network is so slow, and it gets narrowed down to a slow NIC, we generally end up replacing it with a Gigabit one. They're not that expensive these days. --- Andy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message