HP & Compaq

From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Fri Sep 7 08:03:11 2001

> On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Douglas Quebbeman wrote:
>
> > I hope you don't mean the EtherFast 10/100 LNE100TX cards... they are
> > *way* too sensitive to noisy LANs... I've had to pull several and replace
> > them with either Intel Pro/100 adapters, or drop back to some old 3Com
> > 3c509 10Mbps combo cards... Of course, YMMV, etc...
>
> Actually, I am referring specifically to the EtherFast 10/100 LNE100TX
> Revision four and higher cards. The older ones are garbage.

The box of 20 I bought last December has not served us well...
even though I believe our LAN is the weak point, at least the
Intel and 3Com cards don't crash the PC from effects of the
noise...

Regards,
-dq
Received on Fri Sep 07 2001 - 08:03:11 BST