Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 21:05:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Larry Librettez <lipshitz909@yahoo.com> To: David Scheidt <dscheidt@tumbolia.com> Cc: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, Gunther Schadow <gunther@aurora.regenstrief.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Who's got the cheapest 100-BT Ethernet NIC? Message-ID: <20010410040515.22915.qmail@web13208.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104092251260.32749-100000@shell-2.enteract.com>
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And I am getting 3.5 MB NFS transfers with rl, so what did you say the problem was? --- David Scheidt <dscheidt@tumbolia.com> wrote: > On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Larry Librettez wrote: > > :Yawn. I've never had probs with rl whatsoever. > The > :intel 10/100 however, seems to drop more packets > than > :the rl, and you must pay twice the $$$ to find that > :out for yourself. > > I have a couple of these cards. (The machine I'm > using has one, even.) I > can only get ~3MB/sec NFS transfers over my 100BT > full-duplex ethernet. With > an Intel card, I get more than twice that. It does > work in all the modes > it's supposed to, it's cheap, and widely available. > If all you're going to > do with it is talk to a DSL or cable modem, it works > fine. I'd never put > one in something needing a really fast network > connection. > > David > -- > dscheidt@tumbolia.com > Bipedalism is only a fad. > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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