Night and Day difference

[Mister T]

For the past year I have thought the my cable modem has been really shitty as it was only marginally quicker than a dial up modem with infrequent bursts of speed. Well, today I installed my new mobo, the gigabyte 845iEXP mobo that has integrated LAN and ditched my old realtek network card. All of a sudden I am downloading at 150K/s......... It was damn POS network card the whole time!!!!

I had somehow convinced myself that RCN sucked....

 

[Viper GTS]

NIC's aren't something to go cheap on.

I loved my Intel Pro/100, & the Intel NIC on my gigabyte board (basically the same as yours) is good as well.

Viper GTS

 

[Maetryx]

No way, Viper. He just got a screwed up card. The only screwed up NIC I ever came across was 3Com. I've been buying the cheapest brands I can find since then (D-net, SMC, Hawking).

 

[hans007]

i've been using cheapass integrated realteks, and cheap realtek PCIs, and they work just as well as the 3com i once had.

 

[gopunk]

i get decent speed with realtek (round 100k +)

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: gopunk
i get decent speed with realtek (round 100k +)

Ditto. Also with the $20 Linksys card.

 

[kherman]

I used to be processor limited. AMD K6-2 400. When DLing, my kernal would be at 100%. That was at some seriously fast DL speeds though. Just something to look into. I always bought hte cheapest LAN card.

Cable Modem shares the bandwidth in a neghborhood. cable modem nodes are about 50 times faster than dial up. So if you have 50 users on that one node, you will be getting hte performance of a modem. keep in mind though, that people are not always DLing stuff consisitantly. But think about hte concept I outlined. If it's between, say 5 and 9 PM, your neighbors are probably on hte net.