| From: | Matthew Garrett |
| Date: | 21 Aug 2000 at 13:37:24 |
| Subject: | Re: PCI BUS BOARD |
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Matt Sealey wrote:
> 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 one in question was an EISA one rather than ISA, using the Vortex
chipset rather than the Etherlink III one. Pretty near top of the range
for its time. Still, you're right - my current hatred of the 3com
corporation and all their minions is somewhat irrational :) I'm
unconvinced that they're entirely worth the excess they cost over some
other manufacturers, though. If they had a more attractive corporate logo,
I'd be more forgiving...
> Much better than those lame-o NE2000 clones that the idiots seem to think
> we should recommend :)
Agh. NE2000. Must.. resist.. desire... to... kill...
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