Ok, since someone actually made the "realtek cards don't suck" statement... Check out the comments in the FreeBSD driver for the card, they explain why their performance is so poor compared to other cards:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/pci/if_rl.c?rev=1.56&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&only_with_tag=HEAD
Yes, but keep in mind the following quote from those comments:
" * It's impossible given this rotten design to really achieve decent * performance at 100Mbps, unless you happen to have a 400Mhz PII or * some equally overmuscled CPU to drive it. "
A "400 MHz PII" is not exactly a powerhouse these days, although it may have been in 1997-1998 when those comments were written.
JZ
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