wierdness with 100BaseT interface in linux.

I would stay away from the $10 NIC's from Fry's as alot of the time they use
a generic module to make it work, and it is a weak link. I have a 1 gig card
I gave $50 for and it is certified by Mandrake, Redhat, SuSE etc.. The more
you pay for hardware the better the quality. If you want mediocre
performance go for the cheapie!!


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----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig White" <craigwhite@azapple.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 9:44 PM
Subject: Re: wierdness with 100BaseT interface in linux.


> On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 21:13, technomage wrote:
> > On Sunday 04 January 2004 08:52 pm, Craig White wrote:
> > >
> > > ----
> > > change cables - sounds like you've got a cable with only 4 wires (cat
3)
> > > and you would need cat 5 (8 wires) - I remember this exact same thing
> > > happened to someone else. Windows doesn't always report the true
nature
> > > of the connection.
> > >
> > > Craig
> > tried that.....
> > no dice. also, windows may not report, but the ftp client I was using
was able
> > to get and put a 30 meg file in 6 seconds in windows. tried the same
thing in
> > linux and get was 6 seconds but put was 14 minutes.
> > go figure....
> >
> >
> ---
> try another hub/switch
>
> another NIC from Fry's is under $10 - you might want to try that
>
> Craig
>
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