Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 01:38:18 -0400 From: "Andrew C. Hornback" <achornback@worldnet.att.net> To: "Rick Hamell" <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com> Cc: "FreeBSD-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Network cards: 3com XL rumour ... Message-ID: <000301c12483$5291ff20$5cd05d0c@tomcat> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108132220260.22201-100000@heorot.1nova.com>
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> -----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
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