From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 2 14: 8:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from moek.pir.net (moek.pir.net [130.64.1.215]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E87A37B724 for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 14:08:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pir@pir.net) Received: from pir by moek.pir.net with local (Exim) id 14kBZ7-00065B-00 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Mon, 02 Apr 2001 17:08:45 -0400 Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 17:08:45 -0400 From: Peter Radcliffe To: FreeBSD-STABLE list Subject: Re: Network performance question Message-ID: <20010402170845.R14027@pir.net> Reply-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD-STABLE list References: <009901c0bad3$3e708080$931576d8@inethouston.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from hey9811@yahoo.com on Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 04:01:43PM -0500 X-fish: < X-Copy-On-Listmail: Please do NOT Cc: me on list mail. Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Virtual Bob probably said: > So what's exactly different about these cards? I never figured it out. > They're priced around $60 to $90 each vs. no-name ones for $10 to $20. I > sure like to know if there's any good reason to buy those... I used to use whatever cards I had to hand or were cheaper. I had hassles, incompatabilities, weird behavior. Some people do fine on cheap cards, but particularly when the net gets very busy I find that decent cards handle it better. I've wasted a lot of time debugging stupid problems that ended up being cheap network cards or bad support for network cards. My time is worth more than the cost of a decent network card. My card of choice is the intel pro100[b], which I pick up used for a massive $12 these days. I and others who I've recommended to them have bought intel cards from http://www.pc-pitstop.com/ and been happy customers. P. -- pir pir@pir.net pir@net.tufts.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message