From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 6 7: 1:29 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 829A837B401 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 07:01:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from eos.telenet-ops.be (eos.telenet-ops.be [195.130.132.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78AED43F75 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 07:01:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gandalfbram@pandora.be) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by eos.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with SMTP id 12CC31FFB9 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 16:01:22 +0100 (CET) Received: from olorin.pandora.be (d5152B23A.kabel.telenet.be [81.82.178.58]) by eos.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id E06301FFB7 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 16:01:21 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.0.20030306160130.00c81958@mail-in.pandora.be> X-Sender: lv046@mail-in.pandora.be X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 16:02:20 +0100 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org From: Bram Van Dam Subject: Re: Realtek In-Reply-To: <007c01c2e3ef$3483d8a0$0229c80a@abtec412> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 15:46 6/03/2003, you wrote: >HI there. >Gotta question. > >Someone said that the realtek 8029 and 8139 ethernet cards are the worst >cards ever made. My boss is planning to make a great buy of this cards for a >communication project ( the reasons is obius, the cost of this cards ) I'm >trying to persuade him to by 3com ethernet cards, but I need technical >information to demostrate him that it's not a good inversion to buy those >kind of cards. I happen to have a couple of those realtek cards. They're definitely not the BEST every made, but not the worst either. Granted, I've never once reached 100mbits with them (usually around 30-50mbits), but considering how cheap they are they do their job fairly well. If performance isn't an issue then go for it. If it *is* an issue, look for 3Com the likes. Of course this isn't technical information, it however is first hand information from someone who's been using the cards for several years (me). - Bram To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message