I'll chip in another 2 cents, I can back up this claim, we use the 3com 905's exclusively, we found the Intel nics to be noticably slower.
Rick Davidson Systems Administrator Buckeye Internet Services, Ltd. The cool thing about technology is that it keeps getting cooler. - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Wong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 5:47 PM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Bad LAN cards (was: iMail is extremely ...) > Hi all, > > Here's my 2 cents on 3Com and Intel NIC's: > > Our non-scientific tests show that 3Com 905's can outperform current Intel > Pro's by about 50%. Our tests were performed on the same computers by > replacing just the NIC's. We moved large files back and forth on both NT > and Novell platforms. The 3Coms can move the files in 2/3 the time an > Intel card would. > > Cheers, > > Richard > > > At 04:03 PM 1/17/02 -0600, you wrote: > > > >>The 3-Com 905abc and Intel PRO server cards are flawless. > >>Chris > > > >I think the 3com's are less efficient in CPU burden than Intel's, but I'm > >recalling from a very old report. > > > >Len > > > > > >http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training > >http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND 8.2.4 for NT4 & W2K > >http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways > > > > > >Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > >to be removed from this list. > > > >An Archive of this list is available at: > >http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
