On 6/8/05, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Just wanted to say this.. > > El-Cheapo cards will work, but may not be as full-featured or as fast > throughput as the more expensive 3com cards. eg: USD6 Dlink vs USD25 > 3com. > > One Dlink I got was absolutely horrible. It will hang after a while and > then everything will stop. Once changed the card, it's OK. I think this > was a realtek chipset which caused the issue. > > But in general, my experience is, if it's not for too much heavy duty > work, el-cheapo will be good enough. > > -- > Ow Mun Heng > Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM > 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! > Neuromancer 17:44:11 up 5:56, 6 users, load average: 1.16, 1.13, 0.85
thank you so much, all. I have enough to go on to make some phone calls and ask the right questions to get this done today, hopefully. this need came up very suddenly so the advice on this list has been fantastic and much appreciated. thank you, Thufir -- [email protected] mailing list
