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Date:	Tue, 11 May 2004 00:07:16 PDT7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Peer Network Problems...

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In <40A05B3F.1060206@adelphia.net>, on 05/10/04
at 09:49 PM, Colin Campbell said:

>What Steven told me was "Get an Intel NIC." I went after the meeting to
>Fry's, bought an Intel PRO/100 S PCI card, and by 5PM that Saturday, I
>was up and running. The included CD has an OS2 directory, but I'm not
>certain whether the drivers I'm using are from there. Still, this was a
>case of money well spent, at $54.95.

You pay a premium for Intel, but there are reasons. First, the warranty
is better and as a result the QA seems to be better. I haven't had an
Intel card die here yet and I have some rather old ISA cards still in
service. The drivers seem to be better too. With the exception of the
500MHz CPU defect, the drivers seem to be solid and use less resources
than others.

The RTL8139 based cards are cheap, but servicable. At under $10, who
cares if they die as long as they die completely rather than causing
intermittent problems. The drivers are excellent, but that was not always
the case. The drivers used to be lousy until Kim convinced Realtek to
give Serenity access to the source code. Then Veit went do work and did
good things to the code.

Regards,

Steven

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