From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 30 9: 5:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (corinth.bossig.com [208.26.239.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43D4214C91 for ; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 09:05:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (kenn1188.bossig.com [208.26.241.188]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 3.4.5) with ESMTP id ; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 09:12:59 -0800 Message-ID: <386B90E7.E5D588FD@3-cities.com> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 09:05:43 -0800 From: Kent Stewart Organization: Columbia Basin Virtual Community Project X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Isaac Waldron Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netgear FA310TX NIC References: <02ad01bf52e6$6d6ed900$c3d985d0@camry> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Isaac Waldron wrote: > > Is anyone using the Netgear FA310TX NIC? I'm running FreeBSD 3.4-Release, > and I'm looking for a way to network my box to a Windows box I have. I'm > looking at Netgear's network kit that includes a hub and two of these cards. > They are supported by the pn driver, but I'm interested in knowing how > others have done with this card. If you only have two machines a crossover patch card is far cheaper. For performance, an Intel Pro 100+ is probably much faster. When you install a hub, you run half-duplex. You have to say half-fast very quickly :). A starter kit probably runs around the same price as two Intel NIC's and a crossover patch cord. You force them into full-duplex and get the full benefit of your network. Kent > > Thanks in advance, > Isaac Waldron > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message