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On 5/27/98, at 2:09 AM, William T Wilson wrote:
>On Tue, 26 May 1998, Scott Tyson wrote:
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>> 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.
have many a post about ne2000 vs 3com isa cards and the 3com is a faster
card if you can believe what you read.
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>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). :)
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>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. :)
Actually I only found 1 pci ne2000 card, although I was not looking at isa
cards. I found about 6 DEC/Tulip cards lined up next to each other.
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>> 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?
Again from what I've read from news group posts and various packaging/web
pages, a full duplex card can push more data (up to double) though the bus
than a half or no duplexing card. I have no idea as to the technology but
my linksys card claims a 132 mb/second transfer rate. My isp also
recommended that I get a full duplex card for better performance.
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