| From: | Matt Sealey |
| Date: | 20 Aug 2000 at 20:36:57 |
| Subject: | Re: PCI BUS BOARD |
Hello Matthew
On 20-Aug-00, you wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 07:45:15PM +0100, Matt Sealey wrote:
>
>> .. and a free Voodoo5, with documentation from 3dfx, and a free 3Com
>> 3C905B-TX with docs, and a free SoundBlaster Live! 1024 Retail with docs.. ;)
>
> Argh. If I have one more 3com spontaneously forget its ethernet address,
> decide that despite being an EISA card in an EISA slot it really wants to
> try to map itself into PCI address space or an autosensing hub suddenly
> disable all 100mbit connections without anyone having gone near it, I will
> go and kill people. 3com? 3 times higher in price than it deserves to be,
> more like.
3Com ISA cards really suck dick. You can't decide whether you like an entire
company or not based on a single, probably lame, card. And their lower-end
hubs seem to suck dick as well, but the big chunky routers we have at work
seem to serve our buildings fine - apart from that time when the network
decided that it would go half-duplex at one end, and full duplex on another,
but that was down to one of the network cards in one of the servers dying
(a DEC I think..) and the router somehow getting confused..
The 3C905 series are bloody nice though. We only had one problem with them
regarding boot roms - i.e. we can't use them - but none others really. The
performance is good, the price is good (£50 odd for the nicest ones) and they
have tons of neat features.
Much better than those lame-o NE2000 clones that the idiots seem to think
we should recommend :)
Thanks
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