[H-GEN] Time loss on copy

[Grant, Luke]

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lol......did i just see "decent" and "3com" in the same sentance...

the 3com905b and 3com905c cards are undoubtedly the crappest cards ever
released.
They have craploads of hardware bugs and when i got our electronic engineers
to look at them they just laughed when they saw the setup.

Luke

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Luke Grant
Systems Administrator
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Maroochydore
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Kearey [mailto:robk at powerup.com.au]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 10:12 PM
> To: general at lists.humbug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [H-GEN] Time loss on copy
> 
> 
> [ Humbug *General* list - semi-serious discussions about Humbug and ]
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> Frank Brand wrote:
> 
> > > Anyhow, is it RealTek or NE2000?  I think they are 
> different cards.
> 
> > RealTek cards are NE2000 derivatives as Chris Biggs points out. This
> > particular
> > card is an ISA 8019 or 8029.
> 
> They're /workalike/ cards, not derivatives. The difference is highly
> significant.
> 
> Any ISA network card is a Bad Idea these days, and especially 
> so for an
> NE2K workalike! Junk it for a decent 3Com PCI card (or somesuch) and
> things will improve.
> 
> > Frank Brand
> 
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