[plug] Sound or Network Card

[Jamie Moir]

On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Leon Brooks wrote:

> If network performance is important to you, spring for the extra $ and
> get a DEC-based (tulip chipset) network card. These all seem to do
> remarkably well on speed and efficiency for not much cost. Mind you, a
> PCI-based NE2000 clone (ugh!) only costs about $19 these days.

im also prepared to second this, ive gone from 3com3509b isa > netgear
with a dec 21140? oe whatever they are called on it and im very happy, id
also say dont touch skanky crap like ne2kpci or realteks as there is no
real economy in having dodgy hardware

quite a few makers are using decs or dec clones and they seem ok, dlink
and netgear spring to mind

Jamie