> Reply-To: ps-net@online.no > From: Asgeir Stangeland <ps-net@online.no> > > I have used 3Com 3c509 nic width bnc coax. I have experienced that these > cards used width FreeBSD and Samba is unusable due to speed. I tried to > change the 3com card with a NE2000 compatible card, and there was a major > change in speed. Has anyone else experienced such problem. > > Asgeir StangelandMy experience is the opposite. I've had good results with 3c509b cards (RJ-45, not coax), but bad throughput with a NE2000 compatible card. Dave
Quite the opposite. Lousy throughput with NE2000's (and mucho compatibility problems as well) and excellent results with 3c509 and 3c905s. I long-ago went over to CAT-5 (RJ-45) cable and have since dumped all of those slow cards for a complete switched 100baseTX LAN. (8-port NetGear 100baseTX FDX switches are now ~$178US at Fry's, tres cool). Now, does anyone know which Gigabit card works best with Linux?> -----Original Message----- > From: samba@samba.org [mailto:samba@samba.org]On Behalf Of Asgeir > Stangeland > Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 1:05 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA > Subject: 3com 3c509 > > > I have used 3Com 3c509 nic width bnc coax. I have experienced > that these > cards used width FreeBSD and Samba is unusable due to speed. > I tried to > change the 3com card with a NE2000 compatible card, and there > was a major > change in speed. Has anyone else experienced such problem. > > Asgeir Stangeland >
Hello, At 06.05 28/10/99 +1000, you wrote:>I have used 3Com 3c509 nic width bnc coax. I have experienced that these >cards used width FreeBSD and Samba is unusable due to speed. I tried to >change the 3com card with a NE2000 compatible card, and there was a major >change in speed. Has anyone else experienced such problem.in my experience some times there's some sort of incompatibility among different cards. So I obtained good results with NE2000 cards in some occasions, very bad in others, mixed results with 3Com cards and some other good adapters, with no apparent rule causing different performances. Sometimes simply changing the cable length a litlle caused 10 times differente speeds! Always with RG58 cabling. Got really little experience with RJ45. Bye! -- Denis Sbragion InfoTecna Tel, Fax: +39 039 2324054 URL: http://infotecna.home.dhs.org
I have used 3Com 3c509 nic width bnc coax. I have experienced that these cards used width FreeBSD and Samba is unusable due to speed. I tried to change the 3com card with a NE2000 compatible card, and there was a major change in speed. Has anyone else experienced such problem. Asgeir Stangeland