6 Jul
2003
6 Jul
'03
9:45 a.m.
In message <3F089393.5060101(a)mdrconsult.com>
Doc <doc(a)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.
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