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Erratic NIC performance

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Marsupial

Junior Member
Does anyone have any experience with a Realtek (8139b) based NIC? I bought one (Trendware TE100-PCIWN) because it was relatively cheap, and I have found it to be an erratic performer, mediocre at best. Often, something will crap out on me when I am browsing the web, and it will take a long time for the page to load. When I monitor the network activity, nothing happens for long stretches of time. I am sure this is not a problem with the rest of my hardware, as I borrowed a friend's NIC and it worked beautifully. My first inclination was that something was wrong with either the drivers or my os (Win 98se), but I have reinstalled everything to no avail. All comments/suggestions would be greatly welcomed.
 
I used one of those and had great trouble running it in full-duplex mode (set in Control Panel -> Network -> Adapter properties)... Had to resort to Auto, which meant half-duplex with this card. With 2 other cards full-duplex was OK with our switch. Unecessary to say, I never penetrated the problem too much - got myself a fine D-Link 550TX instead.

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I know you're on your new sweet DSL connect but it might be a local router that you ISP routes you through that is causing your problem. When you find that a site lags go to a command prompt and ping it. IE...Ping www.yahoo.com
If this returns with a high ms rating average of 200 or more then you are having lag.
Then you should do a trace route.
IE...tracert (input the ip shown from the previous ping)
the trace route program will show you where your latency is coming from.
This has nothing to do with how fast your home connection is because if you're going through a bad router all you have is a really fast connection to laggy doorway!
If you want more info with the trace route try downloading a 3rd party share or freeware one that offers more information. I have one that even displays the email address of support for the router you are having trouble off of.
 
Fortunately, or unfortunately, this is not the problem. This was my initial hunch, but it was the first thing I ruled out. Very often, I access sites that are very close to me (physically) that I have traced before (not more than 6, 7 hops away says tracert), and that consistently ping under 10. The pages are small and not demanding of bandwith, and my roomate's computer (which is far inferior to my computer notwithstanding the NIC) loads 10 - 20 times faster. Both computers are hooked up to the same switch. I am sure the problem lies with my machine, but beyond that I don't know.
 
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