[lug] NIC Speed

[Peter Hutnick]

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On Thursday 02 May 2002 09:27 am, J. Wayde Allen wrote:

> A few days ago I stopped by CompUSA to see what they had for network
> cards.  If I remember correctly they were selling Linksys, Compaq,
> Siemens, and 3com NIC's.  I hadn't looked into this lately and was a bit
> surprised at the price range from $15 to $100.  It wasn't at all clear to
> me what the advantages or disadvantages were between the ends of this
> scale either.  Anyone know for sure?

The Linksys cards have a special feature that leaves an extra $75-$85 in your 
pocket.

Seriously, there may be some marginal difference in max throughput and/or CPU 
usage.  But in a day and age when your 100Mb NIC has a 1GHz proc on one side 
and an internet connection measured in kbps on the other it hardly matters in 
most cases.

> I was intrigued by the clearance sale on the Siemens cards since the box
> said it supported Linux, unlike all of the other products.  Anyone have
> experience with these?

Sorry, no.

Linksys cards normally claim Linux support on the box.  And run about $20.

- -Peter

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