Re: Recommendations about a 100/10 NIC

[Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.-]

On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Tim Hockin wrote:

> I've been happy with Natsemi controllers (Netgear FA-311 and Fa-312).

Have you tried those with cables longer than 20 feet?  I was totally happy
with my Netgear cards with a 10ft crossover until I tried connecting a
couple of new computers to my file server in the closet with 25ft CAT5
and then all the UDP (most noticeably NFS) traffic turned to crap.

I returned everything and got all D-link hardware.  Works great.  I'm not
going to buy Netgear hardware for the foreseeable future.

Michael Sterrett
  -Mr. Bones.-
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