Re: cheap network card supported by linux

[Alvin Oga <aoga@ns.Linux-Consulting.com>]

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Nicos Gollan wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 02:01:22 +0300
> jb@rk3-56-3.tky.hut.fi (Janne Blomqvist) wrote:
> 
> > Most cards work fine these days. The thing is to avoid the really
> > crappy ones. Plenty of anecdotal evidence suggests to avoid the rt8139
> > chipset based cards, which most of the really cheap ones unfortunately
> > are.

one can't expect cheap stuff to perform at any reasonable
price/performance, you got what one paid for or as its configured

- things that affect a good nic or bad nic would depend on your setup
	- your cheap hub(switch) or good hub(switch)
	- your cheap cables or good cables  and length of the cable
	- the idiot light on the hub/switch that blinks
	"collion-collision-collision" needs to be fixed by taking out the 
	cheap hub/switch

if you want network performance... you have to spend a day tuning it
and testing it and changing the tcp/ip parameters and hope your nic
can also keep up ( most all of um fail ... none can run(sustained) at
even 50% of its 100Mbps or 1000Mbps rated speeds )

$5 for a cheap rt1839too or $150 intel .... is it worth the difference ?
	- depends ..

c ya
alvin