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[John Summerfield]

> 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.

It's ten megabits/sec. Fine for printing, Internetting and lightweight 
filesharing.

For serious work (loading large programs or even Linux) you really need 
one hundred megabits.

10 Mbs is like those ancient 40 Mbyte MFM drives, crippling to a modern 
computer.


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Cheers
John Summerfield
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