I mentioned to a friend my interest in acquiring a pair of good NICs. 
He offered 3 of his made by DLINK.  Atleast one of then, perhaps all,
are the model 530TX.  Any idea how well these cards perform?

foodog@uswest.net wrote:
> 
>   My experience has been that 3Com makes a dandy 'munitions
> grade' nic.  Easy to find, widely supported, very reliable -
> particularly the Etherlink III series.  My firewall has a
> 3C595 that came with the box and a 3C509, FWIW.  I really
> like the 'Intel Pro100B' for stuff that matters.
> 
> A quick web search sez the RealTek 8029 chipset is very much
> like the Ne2000.  If you've got 'em just sitting there
> looking at you I'd use them.
> 
> P.S. I wouldn't be too quick to criticize any hardware just
> 'cause it appears to make Win9x crash and burn.  You might
> want to boot into 'safe mode' and delete references to
> network hardware from the registry then plug'n'pray again.
> If/when it refuses to acknowlege hardware, take a look under
> 'unknown devices' too... (Gawd, how I loath MS engineers -
> "Locating driver for Unknown Hardware.")
> 
> Steve
> 
> Mark Berkwitt wrote:
> >
> >
> >  I have 2 PCs and would like to set up a network at home.
> >
> >  I have a 3com etherlink (ISA) I've been using for a while and 2 other
> >  PCI NICs, sitting unused, based on the
> >  RealTek 8029 chipset.  Currently, the 3com is used with my cable-modem.
> >  I tried installing either of the 8029 NICs and upon booting made my
> >  win98 partition unstable.  Each time I would boot I would get about as
> >  far as the login window and soon after the machine would reboot.  I
> > took
> >  them out and then had to search for new hardware in w98 to get my 3com
> >  nic to work again.  I suppose if I'm determined to create this network
> >  I'd better buy 2 new nics that won't fight eachother.
> >  Any you would recommend???
> >
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