Is there such thing as bad network card?

[luvya]

Allright, i will try to make a long story short. This other day, I installed a D-link network card, everything works great and I was pleased with it. But as a loyal hot deal ATers, I know I paid too much for this card ($20). I was determined to return it once I find a cheaper one. So yesterday I found a Belkin one for $5 brand new...I installed the new card and everything looks great..except it keeps returning "page cannot display" error!! If I am going to some website, I will have to refresh 2 or 3 times for it to load up!! :| Does anyone have the same experience? I bought this new card from a privater...I don't think he will take the return

 

[XZeroII]

Sounds like a software problem. maybe driver problem, but I would guess something else.

 

[gistech1978]

Originally posted by: luvya
Allright, i will try to make a long story short. This other day, I installed a D-link network card, everything works great and I was pleased with it. But as a loyal hot deal ATers, I know I paid too much for this card ($20). I was determined to return it once I find a cheaper one. So yesterday I found a Belkin one for $5 brand new...I installed the new card and everything looks great..except it keeps returning "page cannot display" error!! If I am going to some website, I will have to refresh 2 or 3 times for it to load up!! :| Does anyone have the same experience? I bought this new card from a privater...I don't think he will take the return

mess with the tweak test on Text
do what it tells you to with DrTCP. that very well might clear it up.

 

[luvya]

Btw, the connection in our dorm is very slow, I am sure we have T1 connection, but when everybody is using it, it just slows down a lot. Maybe I can tweak the setting so the network card is not so eager to return error?

 

[FoBoT]

yes, i have had 2-3 bad network cards in the past ~5 years

they do break, sometimes

 

[y2kc]

I've had nic cards that rendered PCs totally useless. Is yours bad? who knows, but it is possible .

 

[DaWhim]

my netgear nic will crash my computer when I run bittorrent

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: y2kc
I've had nic cards that rendered PCs totally useless. Is yours bad? who knows, but it is possible .

Same here, and also I've had 2 at work that functioned but very, very slowly. Someone else guesses that they all were damaged by static electricity since he had gotten a static shock plugging in a network cable.

The 3-year old netgear in my old PC has also turned flaky starting last month -- it now doesn't initialize properly from a cold boot, so I have to restart that PC to get it running from a warm boot.

Netcards are quirky.

 

[randomlinh]

the cheap things they stick in dells. about two years ago, we hit a string of ppl not being able to connect to our unversity system. they all had the same 2400 dell, xp home, cnet nic. well, our NOC decided to take a couple in to try to figure out what the problem was...dell seemed useless in helping, and no matter what they did, they could never connect. swap in a new card, everything works.

 

[vegetation]

Yes, they go bad for no apparent reason (at least one that you could diagnose). I had one that would spontaneously disconnect from the network whenever it was transfering too much data.