Re: [Sheflug] Network hardware

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> "Craig" == Craig Andrews <craig [at] fishbot.free-online.co.uk> writes:

    Craig> Maplins in hillsborough are doing some PCI NE2000 cards for
    Craig> a tenner. They work fine.

Mostly.

I've seen reports where cheap PCI NE2000 clones can have throughput as
bad as 30-40% of nominal (where the rest of the system can definitely
handle it).  But if you're not streaming video or the like it
shouldn't be a problem.  It also depends on the rest of the system,
other people say that they get the full 10 or 100 megabits in their
situation.


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