On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, 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?
The Linksys, IMHO, is the best card for the price. I have about a dozen of them and they're all working great. I've not had such good luck with the Netgears. Every once in a while the local computer store puts the Linksys on rebate so it ends up being about $9 apiece.
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