NICs - What to buy?

[Hagelin]

What are the benefits of buying an expensive card from Intel or 3Com instead of some cheap card from SMC, CNet or Shihatzu? I'm gonna be using them in a home network with a Linux server and one or two windows machines.

 

[Fathom5]

I've had very good performance from Netgear FA310TX 10/100 NIC's. You can pick them up for about $20.00 each and I've yet to have any kind of a problem.

 

[BCYL]

If you have the extra $$ go with the Intel, 3com expensive ones...

Otherwise Netgear, D-Link and Linksys all have good and reliable NICs... Those would fit your application perfectly...

 

[Supergax]

The Intel and 3com nics aren't terribly expensive if you buy online. Mwave has 3com and Intel workstation nics for about $40; it's whne you go to CompUSA and they charge you $100 for the same stuff.