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- From: lachlan@dmp.csiro.au (Lachlan Cranswick)
- Subject: Re: Which network card?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep5.073040.3505@dmp.csiro.au>
- Organization: CSIRO Division of Mineral Products, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
- References: <EBROWN.92Aug20140559@bud_light.kodak.com> <1992Sep1.151911.22477@dcatlas.dot.gov>
- Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 07:30:40 GMT
- Lines: 39
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- joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott) writes:
-
- >ebrown@bud_light.kodak.com (Eric Brown) writes:
-
-
- >>I'm trying to buy a TCP/IP thin (BNC Coax) eternet card. For NT purposes,
- >>I must choose between:
- >> Etherlink II (8 bit) $179
- >> Etherlink II / 16 (16 bit) $279
- >> SMC/West.Dig. WD8013 (16 bit) $179
- >> SMC/West.Dig. WD8003 (? bits) $???
-
- >I have not used the Etherlink boards, but I will tell you why I use and like
- >the WD boards.
- >1) I have found them generally reliable.
- >2) They are relatively inexpensive compared to other boards.
- >3) They include good diagnostic software.
- >4) They are now entirely software configurable. This means that the same
- > IPX.COM will work on the board no matter which IRQ , I/O address, and
- > RAM base address is being used by that particular board.
-
- >For a workstation, an 8 bit card should suffice. I generally put 16 bit
- >cards in servers.
-
- >-JTT
-
- I agree, the WD cards are pretty good. Although I would
- recommend the 80XX? elite plus cards that have the extra
- interupts.
-
- For a while we could not get our ethernet going because
- we needed interupts that didnot conflict with
- our Windows setup and hardware setup. If you only have
- a card with 3 possible interupts, this can be rather tricky.
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