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Why are Network cards such Pains in the..............

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aniki

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How much can a NIC effect the speed of a cable modem? Will any do?
I have Linksys 10/100 LNE 100TX v4 and its very temperamental. So I need to replace it and find one that will work consistently with my setup. Any Ideas?

Update: I went out and bought a Netgear FA311 at Compusa(I needed one Quick). Seems like it cant work with my Cable Roadrunner configuration. I was on the phone with Cable tech support and they couldnt fix it. They suggested to put back the Linksys since it had been working previously. The problem now is I'm back where I started. Maybe I will go 3COM. Anybody out there Have a set up similiar to mine with advice?
 
i am using a 3com 905TX and have no trouble at all. i highly recommend this NIC. look in the for sale forum here and you should be able to find one for about $20-$30.
 
not to start an argument or anything but i disagree with you there. with my NIC the driver i first had for it wasn't optimized for WinME but 3com released driver shortly after the official release of WinME that improved the perfomance of it pretty nicely. you would want to get NIC from company that has regular updates of their software, which 3com does.
 
THe LAN port of a cable modem runs at 10mbs/half duplex mode so even a 10mbs NIC will do. However, for future use, I'd rather go with a 10/100 card. The linksys is a good NIC, what exactly do you mean by temperamental?Unless its a hardware problem where it doesn't really work, its mostly a software/driver problem. But if $20 means nothing to you, you can get a D-Link or Netgear for that price. 3Com and Intel are more expensive, probably Intel is the best NIC.
 
SIGH......It seems to not like other PCI devices. I had an ATI TV WONDER card and the system wouldn't boot up consistently with both devices installed. Sometimes I would shutdown or relocate my computer and the system would refuse to boot up until the linksys was pulled out. Very frustrating!!!! I finally decided to get rid of the card after adding WIN2k to dual boot with WIN98. With the linksys installed, Win98 would never open following a boot of WIN2K unless??you guessed it, pulled out The linksys card.
 
Had a crappy linksys card, network performance felt much slower. I got a realtek card for cheap and I benchmarked the two. Sure enough, the realtek card was twice as fast as the linksys card. Some people have no trouble with linksys cards though, so maybe it was just my system. Realtek cards are dirt cheap, supported by Windows by default, and they work. 🙂
 
I've had nothing but great experiences with linksys hardware. I've actually used that very same card on Roadrunner with no problems (well, at least not due to the card) Can you be a little more specific by what you mean by "tempermental"?

I've had plenty of problems with Roadrunner outages and slowdowns, but never any problem using any particular brand of NIC. When I was using RR in upstate NY there was a lot of variation in connection speed. During peak hours, it was about as fast as a 56K modem. At best, I could get about 150K, but that was pretty rare.
 
Personally I'd prefer the cheap'o Realtek stuff.. it's great, and never give me a problem.. Netgear's NIC are not bad either.. Also very cheap now.

but in any case, even if the NIC is running at 10mbps, it should be more then enough to handle the cable modem's transfer speed. and judge from what you said, the cable modem is probably the culprit, not your NIC.
 
Try the Intel Etherexpress 10/100 pro+ management.
I have put 11 of them in 11 different machines and they ALL work perfect. OS: w2k, w98, w98se winME, Linux Suse.

They rock.
 
Im also in agreement about the Realtek cards, theyre cheap and work great, also had great luck with D-Link.

I dunno about Linksys.. my friend has this Linksys 8 port hub and we nicknamed it the "SUPER COLLIDER" because of all the collisions we got when we used it for Network Gaming!
 
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