[lug] Choice of NIC's and a Hub

[Ian Hall-Beyer]

On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Howard Smith wrote:

> I am considering buying a Net gear FE 108 hub and Netgear FA 310TX
> cards.
> Any coments from the voices of experience out there? This is for a home
> network of 5 machines and 3 printers.

We use the DS104's at work in all kinds of situations, they're great. Only
caveat I know of on the FA310TX is that linux has some throughput issues
when it shares a PCI bus with an adaptec 2940.

-Ian

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like a chinese finger puzzle, twist and turn in the right places, 
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