Re: [Sheflug] Network hardware

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

> On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> 
> > >>>>> "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.
> >
> >

 Mmm. I`m using a combination of a few cheap (15-20 quid) NE2000 clones
and some old 3Com 509`s bought for 4 quid each out of the spare bits bin
of a local computer shop. 

 The whole thing runs quite happily.

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