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From: Michael Vernick <vernick@CS.SunySB.EDU>
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In-Reply-To: David Greenman's message of Thu, 01 Feb 1996 02:53:48 -0800 <199602011053.CAA01466@Root.COM>
Subject: 100-Mbit Ethernet cards 
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>   The SMC 9332 cards (based on DEC DC21140) work quite well - I use
>them here. I wrote a driver for the Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B
>recently, and it also works quite well.

>From a recent Network Computing performance test, the SMC cards are
one of the slowest 100Mbps on the market.  Maximum performance is only
about 70Mbps.  I believe (I don't have the article in front of me)
that the Intel cards are on the faster side, up around 80-85Mbps.

mv