On Tue, 26 May 1998, Scott Tyson wrote:
> DONT GET AN NE2000 CLONE!!! Although cheap (20 bucks for pci) they are
> SLOW. Its an ISA card stuck onto a PCI bus. I started with this since
Not the ISA ones. :) Since he's looking for an ISA card I don't see this
as a problem. Although the ancient NE2000 design is perhaps not the most
optimally suited to the PCI bus, it's still not terrible and as you
mentioned you can't beat the price. It performs surprisingly well for the
price, I have used them (ISA ones no less) in sustained 1Mb/sec
transmission and found very little performance degradation, this on a
slow (100MHz) Pentium.
Tulip and 3com cards are probably better cards offering better performance
with less CPU load (the Tulip cards especially) but the NE2000's are good
too. And the design of the 3com cards is surprisingly similar to that of
the NE2000's in that (at least for ISA, I don't know about the PCI) they
are both Programmed I/O (high performance but high CPU load) instead of
shared memory type cards (which have lower performance but lower CPU load
also). :)
Another advantage to the NE2000 cards is that you'll have to drive all
over town looking for a Tulip card, and you'll probably end up having to
order it from back stock in Zimbabwe. But you can find NE2000 cards in
the check out counter at the supermarket and as likely as not in your
grandmother's attic if you're inclined to look there. Barnes and Noble
has started giving them away instead of bookmarks and in Silicon Valley
sometimes they fall out of the sky instead of rain. In short you will
probably have an easier time finding an NE2000. :)
> was the only card RH 5.0 would recognize during install. Get a full
> duplex card. You can find 3com for about 50 bucks (10baseT only) or you
Full duplex in the sense of separate transmit and receive cables is almost
never useful. If that is not the sense of full duplex which you are
referring to, then what do you mean?
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