On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, THUFIR HAWAT wrote:
I urgently need a second ethernet (RJ-45 telephone-looking type) NIC in my computer, which is about a year old, el cheapo but with USB 2.0, so decent for my needs (sorry, don't have mother board details at the moment).
My one piece of advice is to avoid RealTek chipsets (usually RTL-8139). These are the winmodems of the network world. Most of their processing is done by software, not in hardware.
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