Labels:text | screenshot | document | menu | font | number OCR: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY-FAST ETHERNET PRODUCT COMPARISON Vendor 3Com Cogent Data Technologies Grand Junction Networks 5400 Bayfront Plaza 640 Mullis St. 47281 Bayside Pkwy. P.O. Box 58145 Friday Harbor, WA 98250 Fremont, CA 94538 Santa Clara, CA 95052 (800) 426-4368 or (206) 603-0333 (510) 252-0726 (408) 764-5000 or (800) 638-3266 Fax: (206) 603-9223 Fax: (510) 252-0915 Fax: (408) 764-5001 email: sales@cogentdata.com http://www.grandjunction.com http://www.3com.com http://www.cogentdata.com Product Name 3C595-TX EM110 TX PCI FastNIC 100EISA (G110) Product Type 100BaseT PCI Adapter 100BaseT PCI Adapter 100BaseT EISA Adapter Data rate(s) 10/100Mbps autosensing 10/100Mbps autosensing 100Mbps Price $285 $259 $499 Requirements EIA/TIA 568 Category 5 cabling, PCI bus slot EIA/TIA 568 Category 5 cabling, PCI bus slot EIA/TIA 568 Category 5 cabling, EISA bus slot Documentation Very good. Extensive, well-written manual Fair to good. Well written; two and one -half Good to very good. Extensive; well written; has plenty of figures and screen shots to pages of troubleshooting and diagnostic many illustrations. Eighteen pages of diagnostic illustrate points. Ten pages of troubleshooting information --- more would be useful. and troubleshooting information and diagnostic information. Technical support Telephone support provided by resellers, Toll-free telephone support Monday through Friday Free (but not toll free) telephone support. but toll-free number is available for escalation from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m ., Pacific time. Support also Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m ., or support contracts. Support also available available via BBS, Compuserve, FaxBack, and Pacific time. Support also available via Internet via BBS, FaxBack, CompuServe, and Internet mail. mail, WWW, and FaxBack. documentation on CD-ROM Warranty Lifetime warranty on hardware for as long as Hardware is guaranteed for the life of the PC the card remains in its original computer. Three years, parts and labor on hardware. in which the card is originally installed, provided Ninety day warranty on software and media. Ninety days on software. the customer registers within one year of purchase. Otherwise, the warranty is five years, No warranty on software; 90 days on magnetic media Robustness/ No operation or compatibility issues found No operation or compatibility issues found. No operation or compatibility issues found. compatibility Drivers included are DOS ODI and Netware Drivers included are DOS ODI, NetWare 3.x Drivers included are DOS ODI and NetWare 3.x 3.x and 4.x servers, and NDIS, Unix drivers and 4.x servers, and NDIS. and 4.x servers. are available separately. Applicability 100BaseT client and server applications. 100BaseT client and server applications. 100BaseT client and server applications. Test environment 100BaseT network with Grand Junction FastHub 100 repeater. EIA/TIA-568 Category 5 cabling. File server: AST Manhattan P 5090 (90MHz Pentium with 32MB of RAM, 2 1GB hard disk drives in mirrored configuration, PCI/EISA bus); NetWare 4.1. Clients: Compaq DeskPro 575 (75MHz Pentium, 16MB of RAM, PCI/ISA bus), Compaq DeskPro XL 560 (60MHz Pentium, 8MB of RAM, PCI/EISA), Hewlett Packard 486/66ST (66MHz 486 EISA with 16MB of RAM), ALR VEISA tower (33MHz 486 EISA with 8MB of RAM), and four Hewlett-Packard Vectra VL2s (50MHz 486DX2 with 8MB of RAM), MS-DOS 6.2 or 6.21 and Windows 3.1 or Windows for Workgroups 3.11.
