Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 08:45:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@whistle.com> To: Essenz Consulting <john@essenz.com> Cc: Andriy Korud <akorud@polynet.lviv.ua>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DLINK-DFE570TX Message-ID: <200007281545.IAA57560@whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10007281057510.44415-100000@athena.lightningone.net> from Essenz Consulting at "Jul 28, 2000 11:01:07 am"
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Essenz Consulting writes: | Andriy, | | The card should work fine under FreeBSD 4.0 since is based on the DEC | 21143 chip. I havent heard any "fail" stories..... but... | | The card retails for under $250, you can probably pick it up for under | $200 if you found a good deal. Im used to working with Quad cards that | cost well over $500. How good can a $200 Quad card be? This D-LINK card is | cheaper than intels Dual port NIC... So I wouldn't be suprised if over | time these cards turn out to be a litle shotty. I have success > 16 cards in different machines. Yes we used to pay the $500 for Adaptec quad cards or the Zynz. Now we use the D-Link since they fit in the 1U cases that we have (the Adaptec and others tend to be full length PCI ... atleast the Dec based ones were). I always thought $500 was to much and $300 for the Intel was also to much. Since I could buy Dec based cards for $30 dollars. $30 x 4 = $120 add some for the bridge and minus the stuff needed for 4 separate cards and $200 or whatever sounds like what it should be to me. BTW I bought my first one via onsale for $152. Note that www.shopper.com shows some listed for $147.99. So I'd try to get them for $150. Doug A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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