Ran some throughput tests about 6 months ago... rough test nothing fancy 3c905's seemed to give me 45mbs real throughput... the linksys about 42mbps.... Honestly.... I can't think of a reason why you wouldn't stay with them the price/performance point is pretty solid from what I see. (and Linksys doesn't freak out when you call them and say Linux...!)
James On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 22:02, David Rankin wrote: > Listmates, > > I have convinced myself that the PNIC2 eth0 messages I have been > receiving lately are signs that my Linksys LNE 100TX pci NIC is slowly > dying. It only flakes out under high load conditions like pulling a 600M > backup across the card. Anyway, after 2 years of faithfull service, I > wouldn't mind buying another one for the box, but I thought I would first > check to see if you guys had any other suggestions. My LM box still runs > Odyssey (7.2) and serves 8 clients. The only time it sees a heavy load of > throughput is when I backup to another machine on the LAN. > > At $14, it's hard to say no to another Linksys, but if I could benefit > from getting a better card, that's what I'm here trying to find out. What > are some of your favorites for a small server? > > -- > David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. > Rankin * Bertin, PLLC > 510 Ochiltree Street > Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 > (936) 715-9333 > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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