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Re: Network cards performance

Ya`akov N Miles (ynmiles@telus.net)
Mon, 21 Feb 2000 23:06:39 -0800

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William McGrath wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Where is the best place to find technical reviews and comparisons of
> various network cards, hubs and switches? I know Intel and 3Com are the
> best (and priciest) cards on the market, so I am wondering how much
> better their performance is over say no-name and other brands like D-link
> and so on. My small home network probably doesn't need much more than
> 10Mbps, but I am interested in home-brew Beowulf and am concerned about how
> they will scale in that context where interprocessor bandwidth is a real
> concern. Of course price is always an issue.

I have had good luck with the LinkSys LNE100TX series of 10/100 PCI Ethernet
Interface Cards. They use a modified version of the dec "tulip.c" driver,
which can be downloaded from the Linux page at http://www.linksys.com
At 100 megabits/second with this card, I am able to copy the entire contents
of a CD-ROM in under two minutes. Backs up way faster than DAT tape...
Price on the LinkSys EtherFast LNE100TX series is $49.95 at London Drugs.
I believe you can find them for $39.95 if you shop around. As I stated
in an earlier post I have a LinkSys EZXS88W eight port switching hub,
which I bought via special order for $300 at London Drugs. You should be
able to get a better deal elsewhere on this if you shop around. A switch
is to be preferred to a hub because it allows many different conversations
to be made at one time, rather than taking the data from one port and
shooting it out all the other ports which is what a classic hub does.

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