Re: [Sheflug] Network hardware

[Alex Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Craig Andrews wrote:

> > PCI NE2000 is just plain a bad design, so I've heard, it's sort of the
> > Ethernet equivalent of a Winmodem.
> 
> Ugh! I wasn't aware of this. I personally keep well away from anything
> with 'win' as a prefix ;-)

I don't think it's as bad as a Winmodem!! The winmodem thing is not
necessarily bad design, often they're very well put together. It's a
design decision, rather than mistake, which is a completely different
kettle of fish.

Design of networks cards is a tricky business, though, esp. PCMCIA cards.
There's all sorts of things to contend with - extremely high voltages, for
example, are often the cause of NICs failing, in fact, probably the major
cause.

Cheers,

Alex.

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