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Re: 100mbit nic: intel or 3com?



I can't give you a comparison here because I bought a 3com 3300XM (because of 
my feelings for the network card). It has been running non-stop for at least 
a year now and I have not had the need to look elswhere (now that I think 
about it, that is a pretty good advertisement ;-)

John

On Friday 01 February 2002 12:57, Harris, Jason wrote:
> ditto ..
>
> Everone *says* they have world class 10/100 cards, but how many really talk
> to each other at that speed reliably ?  When I am doing an daily backup
> transfers the line runs ~ 85-90 MB for an hour, I've had too many cards
> drop down to 10 or half duplex (eh!) or re-autonegotiate every couple of
> minutes or so.   Some cards just don't do 100 or f/d at all with certain
> devices on the other end.
>
> Intel nics are ok; they are scads better than realtek (don't get me started
> on those) linksys or dlink cheapies.   3coms will save you some extra hair
> pulling when your 100MB or 1000MB network is suddenly performing like a
> 10/half-duplex network running a windows server.  3com has some low-ends;
> I'd stay away from those too.  I would stick with 905B or above.
>
> What are peoples experiences with switches ?  For the office where the co.
> pays, I would have to recommend cisco for the same reasons.  But for the
> soho or home network, cisco is not cost feasible.   How well do small
> switches scale ?  How many devices/traffic to saturate ?
>
> Jason Harris
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Cichy [mailto:john@greengator.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 8:41 AM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: 100mbit nic: intel or 3com?
>
>
> Victor,
>
> IMHO (and this might get me flamed), 3com. I have tried a lot of other
> cards
>
> and I have found that 3com's are well supported (by both linux and doze)
> and
>
> just seem to keep running. 3com's are usually more expensive then the
> others,
> but I feel the extra cost is worth having less aggravation.
>
> John
>
> On Friday 01 February 2002 11:40, Victor Julien wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I want to build a debian based router/gateway/fileserver/mailserver for a
> > home network with 12 clients. It will be quite low budget as the server
> > is a Pentium 166Mhz. I want the network to be 100mbit fullduplex, so I
> > want
>
> to
>
> > buy a Nic for the server. Which one is best for maximum performance and
> > stability? Intel, 3com, SMC or just a cheap Realtek? I think the nic
>
> should
>
> > be using the cpu as little as possible...
> >
> > Thanks for your advice,
> >
> > Victor Julien



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