OK, at the risk of getting sneered at by the hardware gurus, I'll have a go.
From Melco, the princely sum of $22.50 dealer, or $33 retail gets you a CNET Pro 200, which has the Davicom DM9102 chipset, which in turn is a fair clone of the tulip 21143 chipset.
Or if you want to go for a less well renowned but more widely supported chipset Dove and Dick Smith will both sell you RTL8139C based cards for less than $30. Sure, they're not the greatest, but they'll stand up 100Mb without any difficulty. YMWV, of course. Cheers Si On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 09:39:29PM +1200, Chris Wedgwood said:
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 06:23:20PM +1200, Richard Naylor wrote:
This is not to decry teh Cisco gear, but the IEEE team did a huge amount of work on 1000base-T based on the experiences with 100base-T. I mean with 100mbps nics at $25, you can pick where 1000base-T nics will be in 2 years time.
I would love to know where you can get a decent 100mbs NIC for $25 these days. Anything reasonable costs typically three times that I find.
--cw
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