Charlie
Sat Jul 02 09:14:26 CDT 2005
I'm not really pushing them at all, so not in a position to be a fair test.
These are primarily test machines, and they're fine for that. If I were
building a server, I'd probably look for a server oriented card, but for what
I'm doing right now, at this price, I'm fine with them.
--
Charlie.
http://www.msmvps.com/xperts64/
Mercury wrote:
> How low is the CPU usage? IE are they PIO still?
> The reason I ask is that I am having a bad experience with a Realtek
> GB Nic.
>
> "Charlie Russel - MVP" <charlie@mvKILLALLSPAMMERSps.org> wrote in
> message news:O%23b3oVsfFHA.1284@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>> The Micronet cards I've been getting here in Canada are quite
>> reasonably priced, are 10/100/1000 cards, and are based on the
>> RealTek 8169S chipset. There are updated drivers available, but my
>> experience is that they'll work out of the box. Price here has been
>> around $36 CAD, with them being available sometimes for as little as
>> $18 CAD on special. --
>> Charlie.
>>
http://www.msmvps.com/xperts64/
>>
>>
>> David Thompson wrote:
>>> Im looking for a NIC card that is supported by XP 64bit. And the
>>> company actually has drivers for it. 10/100 would be nice. But if
>>> its gotta be a dual port 100/1000 I'll take it.