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First time for everything: A NIC driver download that's half a gig in size!?!

mikeymikec

mikeymikec

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Admittedly it's an Intel network driver that covers *all* supported operating systems (Windows, Linux, FreeBSD), and while I'm used to seeing other Windows drivers (especially graphics drivers) that are as mahoosive as that, network drivers tend to be comparatively tiny, I think partly in the old days it was because one would have to get the NIC driver onto a floppy disk to install it on a computer without an active NIC.

Welcome to my chaotic and eventful morning.

Also, this is how I feel about installing Windows 10 on a HDD-booting system:

 
Yeah the actual driver you need is probably well under a meg.
People are so fucking lazy nowadays, and they assume too much. They assume you have high speed service with no cap.
 
shortylickens said:
Yeah the actual driver you need is probably well under a meg.
People are so fucking lazy nowadays, and they assume too much. They assume you have high speed service with no cap.
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I expect it contained all the ProSet software as well, but I don't recall that being mentioned on the download page and I just updated the driver through Device Manager.
 
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