Richard Bown wrote:
> I did send this in when the server was down so it looks like it got
> lost.
> My cable connection is not as good as it could be, so called out the
> cable guys and to my horror, his win98 laptop downloaded faster than
> this machine,
> My current NIC is a realtek 8139, and I always thought a linux machine
> would floor a poxy winyuk machine.
> What NICs are known to work well , ie fast..
My machines all have Realtek 8139's, but not ultracheap generics.
They're made by AOpen, ALN-825, which was superceded by AON-825. I just
bought 5 AON-825's for less than $9US apiece. My 9.0 box downloads
Mandrake ISO's in less than 40 minutes each when the mirror isn't
overloaded or throttled.
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