18 Apr
2004
18 Apr
'04
13:13
On Sunday 18 April 2004 14:43, Anders Norrbring wrote:
Yep... I can say, stay away from ANY NIC's that use the RTL-8169 chip! They can't keep up since they don't have any on-board processing. Everything is made in the computer's CPU, and that in turn gives you heave congestion problems!
I've been bothered by these software based network cards for a long time - isn't software modems enough proof that it's a bad idea? Anyway, what controllers would you recommend that are fully hardware based? Thanks -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy Newington Consulting Services hansdp at newingtoncs dot co dot za