Re: ethernet card
At 12:33 AM 25/10/96 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
>> I sure am. I have known a couple of friends that have 16bit cards and when
>> they upgraded them both to a PCI (I can't remember what it was now) they
>> went from 250kb/sec on their lan to around 600kb/sec. I think that's a
>> substantial increase IMO.
>
>Let me just say that I've clocked cheap ISA $25 NE2000 clones at 700 kb/s
>(and once 900 kb/s!). But this is dependent on cpu power -- I only get
>those speeds between pentiums.
Yeah - the two computers I had at that time was a 486dx50 (32meg) and a
486dx33 (8meg) so it wasn't powerful, but it's definately the CPU that
judges speeds. I say again though, there's no substitute for quality
between ne2000's and smc/3com cards :)
...Karl
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