18 Apr
2004
18 Apr
'04
13:52
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?
I can't say for sure, but I have very good experiencies from 3Com's NIC's, both 100Mb/s and gigabit cards. Anders.