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[brian coleman]

Jamie,

If you listen for long enough you'll hear bad reports about just about any 
hardware. Personally I've found that I can make most of them work providing 
I follow the instructions, (RTFM), though people like netgear who change 
chipsets without changing model numbers do not help.

On another comment in this thread about 10/100 ethernet cards. You can pick 
up 10 Mhz cards for 4 for $10 and 8 port hubs for $40-50 around the swap 
meets at the moment. This seems a pretty good deal to me considering most 
PC's can't handle data transfers at this rate anyhow and most home networks 
would never have more than one transfers going at a time.

Oops I've assumed cat5 cables. If you use coax you can still get the cards 
for the same price and all you need is the cables and T-pieces which should 
be more than adequate for a 4-5 station network.

Brian Coleman


Speaking about 3Com cards Jamie wrote:

>ive heard very mixed reports about reliability under linux with these
>cards, id personally be quite cautious about touching one
>
>laters,
>
>jamie
>

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