On Sun, October 8, 2006 1:39 pm, Jonas Trollvik wrote: >> > We *always* replace 3Com on general principal when encountered, and >> > at our own (not client) expense. Not about right or wrong, its about >> > what works *always* and what doesn't always work. >> >> Odd, we do the exact opposite, replacing all non-3Com NICs we come >> across with 3Com NICs, for the exact same reason you do: to get >> something that we know works, and works reliably. :)
At a prior job I had, we'd buy large quantities of (mostly PCI) network cards and hand them out with cable modem installation, at probably the rate of 20-30 a week. We started with 3Com cards, and then switched to RealTek, because they were a third of the price, and (totally counter to my expectations) had half the Dead-On-Arrival rate of the 3Coms. The biggest Realtek issue was Windows driver quality.
