Linksys 10/100 Fast Ethernet w/ 7' cable for $10

[vinnyracer]

In this Sunday paper there is a coupon for this deal at Office Depot

 

[mosdef]

Sold out at like noon on Sunday... they said check in sometime mid-week.

-mosdef

 

[Karoth]

anyone know if you can get this online ?

 

[CarpeDeo]

Wow- I remember paying like $5.00 just for a cable.

 

[youseelabruin]

"the OD nics are not LNE100TX but actually NC100 which are a part of their www.networkeverywhere.com line. does anybody recommend this particular nic? basically, reading from the box the only thing different is that it doesnt have WOL."

i wonder too.

from this previous thread...
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?start=11&catid=40&threadid=195645

 

[Ranger X]

Damn, I paid $19.99 for this card too without the cable.

 

[c3]

Onvia.com has the SMC EZNET 10/100 card for $11.63, free shipping. That comes with 6' cat5 cable and wake-on-lan cable. This is the same product as the more expensive SMC 1211TX model, as told by a SMC salesperson. I was told by a co-worker that the SMC card has better Linux support than cards by Netgear and Linksys. Received the product under 48 hours.

 

[akshatp]

Went to Office Depot yesterday, the manager was THE GREATEST MGR i have ever dealt with!!! Bar none.

Not only did he give me the sale price on the HP 8250I which was on sale last week, and should have been $199.99, but the cheaper NIC's were all sold out, so he gave me the LNE100TX with the free cable, and still only chanrged my the $9.99!!!

Of course, when I went to OfficeMax to pricematch the 8250I, THAT mgr was a complete dIck, and didnt pricematch it, even when I started yelling at him in front of his "employees" Oh well, it was kind of fun.

 

[Setral]

Nice deal vinny, also props to c3, I love SMC with Linux.

 

[Ray78]

I originally bought 2 of these cards several months ago for my linux box. I couldn't get them to work, so I swapped them for my 3com cards in my windows pc. Now I'm happily running the networkeverywhere card in my windows pc with no problems and the 3com cards in my linux pc.

If your only using these cards in windows pc's, then I think they are a good deal. I bought mine for $9.99 a few months back and they didn't come with a cable, so this is an especially good deal i think.

 

[huypham]

Are you sure that SMC pack comes w/ cable?

Thanks,
Huy

 

[wjones]

I bought the SMC one from buy.com a while back (not from onvia) when buy.com has free shipping + $10 off. It came with FREE 6' Cat and free TurboLinux Workstation4.0

Hope this helps.

 

[Ark]

youseelabruin I have 2 NC100 cards in my computers for almost a year and they are working without any problems in Win98SE, WinME, and Win2K.

 

[kid07]

thanks for the post vinny.

i went to fry's yesterday and say the linksys NIC for $19.95. I remember seeing this post earlier yesterday so i asked the manager for a pricematch. I bought a LNE100TX for $9.95. He didn't give me the cable, but still a great deal. Thanks.

 

[c3]

Huy, the SMC one does come with cable, at least the one I ordered from onvia a week ago does. Also confirmed by wjones. I didn't expect to get a cable in the package, so that was a nice surprise.

 

[robbert]

I just bought two here in N calif...wed p m

FWIW

 

[Vincent]

The SMC card sounds like a great deal especially if it comes with a cable. However, it uses a RealTek chipset that people around here seem to dislike. Have you had any trouble with it? Under Linux you used the RealTek 8139 driver, right?

The link to the card at Oniva is:
http://www.onvia.com/usa/products/index.cfm?Task=ViewProduct&IdCatalog=2445896

Here's the information from SMC's website:

http://www.smc.com/eznet/nics/ez10_100.html