$9.00 NIC at OM, (warm only)

[PG]

Network Everywhere Model# NC100
normal price 19.00
I don't know if this is a regional thing or not. I don't see this on the website. I think this is made by Linksys. http://www.networkeverywhere.com/adapters.html

 

[darker]

I would not recomend this card. Its linksys low budget line if I was told right. I could have been given bad info so dont quote me.

 

[future]

Worst card.
My buddy had several of them, nothing but problems, don't even think about buying one!

 

[divide by zero]

Yipes! I bought two at this price two weeks ago at BB. Haven't tried them yet. Also coudln't find them on the Linksys website.

 

[fragarific]

I forked over fiddy bones for a spankin shiny 3com bizznitch. no prob s'far.

 

[Ark]

Using 2 of them for a year - no problems at all.
Before had lots of problems with brand name cards on the same computers.
Excellent solution if you need low price card.
Supports all OSs.

divide_by_zero for drivers you have to go to www.networkeverywhere.com

Also we have few same brand PCMCIA adapters for our laptops - less problems, than lynksys cards.

 

[tch]

I dont agree that it's an excellent solution for a low budget. For $10 more you can get a much better NIC. Cheap NIC's are suck.

 

[virtuamike]

Would recommend spending the extra $10 and picking up a Netgear FA310TX.
Outpost has it, linkified.

 

[divide by zero]

Thanks, Ark!

 

[ashandarei]

I also have experience with cheap cards failing. Some of them work right, most of the time. However, you get into all sorts of problems at times. Take Linksys, some of their cards come with the advisory "We recommend you do not use the TCP/IP protocol with this card". WHO would ever thinktheir new network card wouldn't support TCP/IP? If you can't afford 3com cards (and who can?), go for Netgear. They're owned by Bay Networks/Nortel, and are very reputable, while still retaining low prices.:Q

 

[SpideyCU]

What about D-Link? I'd say they're pretty good. I've got a DFE 530-TX on one machine, a DFE 530-TX+ on my other, both work great. The only reason one isn't the "+" model is because the regular 530-TX has drivers for Linux, while the + doesn't. I got the TX+ at a computer show (retail package, NOT "white box&quot for $12.

 

[trend]

i bought one of these crappy cards from Office depot (they are listed at 14$ and 9$, so I just showed them and they gave it to me for 9$)

they are crap for linux, but are fine for windows.
in linux I couldn't find the modules and when I did find them, something was wrong with them or their installation info was wrong

 

[RossMAN]

Here's another vote for the Netgear FA310TX for $19.95, excellent NIC.

 

[BillyRay]

I have a $10 D-Link EZNet that I picked up at egghead a while back. I am not sure if they are still there, but if they are they are good. Wake on LAN, Linux Drivers, etc..

Cheap net cards can be crappy though...I had a one that sucked before I got the D-Link.

 

[Ranger X]

I will also vouch for Netgear's NIC. Been using it for awhile without any problems. Linksys also has decent NICs.

 

[mcdull]

I got the free Linksys NC100 from my DSL package. Use it for LAN, no problem so far.

The box clearly said that "Full Compatible with and Technical Support Only Provided for Win95, 98, NT and 2000", so you shouldn't expect it would work fine with Linux.

I used another cheap cheap NIC (realtek chip) from cyberrebate.com (free), it has even LESS conflict with other PCI cards in sharing resources than the 3COM 905 and another newer Linksys card I'm using.

 

[Edsel]

I have mixed reviews on the Linksys NC100 NIC. I've used them in a couple of Win98 boxes without any problem. But I couldn't get Mandrake Linux to recognize one. And I have one in a W2K Workstation box that requires me to load IPX/SPX/Netbios protocol as well as TCP/IP to read many machines on my network and it takes a long time to make up its mind that it can recognize the other machines. And it flat out won't recognize one other computer, no matter what, though that Win98 machine has no problem accessing the W2K box.

Worse yet, I had an Asus P3W motherboard that wouldn't even POST about 1 time in 4 when I had this card installed. I took the whole computer to the vendor from whom I'd purchased the mobo and his techie systematically tried swapping out my RAM, power supply & CPU, but had the same symptoms. Then he pulled the Linksys NIC. I protested that it couldn't be the NIC, that it had worked in two other machines, but the computer booted every single time without the NIC. He put in a Netgear FA310TX and the machine booted 45 times in a row. We replaced the Linksys, it booted twice and then hung, booted three times and hung. Then it booted another 30 straight times with the Netgear card. I went out an popped $20 for the Netgear card and never had the problem again. The tech said that the Linksys cards had really lousy quality control and could even damage the rest of your system, so they wouldn't even sell them. It wasn't worth their time to troubleshoot them. If I weren't such a cheapskate I'd go to Fry's and shell out $180 for the 10-pack of Netgear FA310TXs and upgrade all my machines. You might be lucky and never have a problem with a Linksys card, but then again, they can be a real PITA. I wouldn't recommend this NIC.

 

[xDanielx]

I have some of the older models of the 10/100 and they work great. But my bro just got one of these and put it in a cheap sys board (a celeron board) and it locked up a lot. I changed slots and I think it works now. I would try to remove it from device manager and it would lock up. I thought it was the crappy board, but now I think its the card. Of course, in my machine I use a 3COM.