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Doc <doc_at_mdrconsult.com> wrote:
> I have a better tip - don't buy Realtek. Period. They're not
> horrible for casual use, say a single box surfing over cable or DSL, but
> on a high-traffic connection, they eat a *lot* of CPU time. The Realtek
> chipsets offload a lot of the packet processing to the main CPU, just
> like a Winmodem.
I've got a 3com Etherlink-III (3C509) ISA-bus board in the router/server
machine, an EL3 in one of the other machines, an Intel PRO-100 PCI in
storage and the DLink in one of the PCs. Oh, and there's an i-cubed
EtherLAN600 (Winbond chipset ISTR) in the RiscPC...
Later.
--
Phil.
philpem_at_dsl.pipex.com
http://www.philpem.dsl.pipex.com/
... The current limits placed are based on resistance
Received on Sun Jul 06 2003 - 16:45:00 BST