From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Jan 26 10:55:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA18810 for isp-outgoing; Sun, 26 Jan 1997 10:55:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from oak.alpine.net (oak.alpine.net [208.138.51.132]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA18805 for ; Sun, 26 Jan 1997 10:55:20 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rh@localhost) by oak.alpine.net (8.8.4/8.6.12) id LAA29721; Sun, 26 Jan 1997 11:05:49 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 11:05:49 -0800 (PST) From: Richard Hodges To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cheap and good network cards In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 24 Jan 1997, Eric J. Schwertfeger wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jan 1997, Victor Rotanov wrote: > > > What cheap and good 10mbit network cards exist that will work both under > > freebsd and win95? > > My favorite 10mbit ISA card are the SMC's. CompUSA has the EtherEZ for > $100, so you should be able to find it for less. You can get the SMC Elite Ultra (8216) cards from Onsale for somewhere around $10 each. Since it is an "auction", the price varies, but the six-packs usually go around $60 or so. They are selling 10bT cards now, but I got 84 of the 10b2 cards a couple months ago for average $8 each. They're ISA, but make the NE2000 cards look like the crap they really are. I recently FTP'd some 600 megs from a Pentium with PCI Ethernet to another Pentium with the SMC (ISA), and got around 1.06 meg/sec. CPU utilization on the PCI was ~20%, on the SMC ~30%. Not bad. If you want a good PCI card, get the Kingston KNE40. It has the DEC chipset and works beautifully on FreeBSD. Costs around $50. Now stop recommending NE2000 cards, PLEASE! All the best, -Richard -------------------------------------------- Richard Hodges | (702) 888-3000 Alpine Internet | 400 Fairview Drive rh@alpine.net | Carson City, NV 89701