Some time back it was mentioned that Ethernet-cards made for Wintel machines with the Realtek 8139 chipset works for Macs too. Thanx to Phil Marlow for the extremely useful links to drivers for such cards,
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloads1-3.aspx? series=16&Software=True (there are drivers there for ALL OS'es!)
I bought a card, made by Sunsway/ST Lab. The actual chip on the card said 8100C, but this seems to be interchangable with the 8139 mentioned. I inserted the card, installed the driver, and it worked straightaway.
BUT: I timed copying a 30 Mb file from the server (now with the new 10/100 card) to another 100 MBps Mac, and it took exactly as long as with the built-in 10 MBps ethernetport! I didn't expect a real 10 times speed boost, but maybe double?
So I am wondering, maybe the new card runs only on 10 MBps? The driver was just an extension for the System Folder (9.0), and no Control Panel to set things. Could it be my switch, even though its specs say 10/100 MBps?
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