Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 14:54:01 -0700 From: "Charles Burns" <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com> To: cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us, dkelly@hiwaay.net Cc: lipshitz909@yahoo.com, gunther@aurora.regenstrief.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Who's got the cheapest 100-BT Ethernet NIC? (Intel Warranty) Message-ID: <F201cZikaTAbNF44VEm0000508a@hotmail.com>
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I can attest to the warranty. I had 2 ancient Pro/100 cards that were in a NT4 Proxy server. These were a really really old model that had multiple large ICs rather than the new style single-IC controller. Their PCB was about twice the size. Anyway, one of them died after several years of continuous service. Rather than worry about which one died, the server owner put two new cards in. I told Intel about them and shipped them off. I recieved two brand-new retail packaged Pro100+ management adapters (the highest end non-server NIC) overnighted to me, no questions asked. I am not a big fan of their CPUs, but they make some great cards and service them extremely well. > > Couple of months ago found a vendor with a box of pulled Intel > > 10/100's and talked them down to 3 for $24. All 3 worked, as did > > the other 6 purchased by those looking over my shoulder. > >Even if they didn't work, Intel supposedly has lifetime warranties on >their cards (white-box or retail, so long as they're Intel brand >cards). > >I haven't had to test that warranty yet, so I don't know how easy it >is to take them up on it. We currently have over 500 Intel NICs from >some old 82557 boards bought about six years ago all the way up past >the 82559 to the new whatchamacallit with the 3DES encryption in it, >and we've _never_ had one go bad. > > >-- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net > FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. > For IA32 and Alpha architectures. IA64, PPC, and ARM under development. > http://www.freebsd.org > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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