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Nordic · 03-22-2001, 06:12 PM

RealTek 8139-based cards own.

Many manufacturers use these chips and the drivers that comes with the NICs or with Windows won't cut it. The driver development over at RealTek has been inredible over the last year and I think they deserve a better reputation than beeing a low budget solution.
RealTek updates their drivers often and have great support, forget the support you get from the company that put togeter the card, the company that made the chip knows the drivers better.

If I had known this a year ago I wouldn't have put down the money for my Intel EtherExpress Pro/100 which can be three times as expensive (!). The Intel card works equally well though.

03-22-2001, 06:12 PM	#5
Nordic Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Umeå, Sweden Posts: 98	RealTek 8139-based cards own. Many manufacturers use these chips and the drivers that comes with the NICs or with Windows won't cut it. The driver development over at RealTek has been inredible over the last year and I think they deserve a better reputation than beeing a low budget solution. RealTek updates their drivers often and have great support, forget the support you get from the company that put togeter the card, the company that made the chip knows the drivers better. If I had known this a year ago I wouldn't have put down the money for my Intel EtherExpress Pro/100 which can be three times as expensive (!). The Intel card works equally well though. __________________ Pump:Eheim 1048, Radiator:LPD radiator 100x150x20mm, CPU block:DD Maze-2, GPU block: DD GPU block, Chipset block:Zalman NB32 AMD XP 1500+, EpoX 8K7A, PoV GF3Ti200 Pic of my YY-cube