On 2010-02-06, James Peltier <james_a_pelt...@yahoo.ca> wrote: > > Have you tried another network card, like an Intel (em) based > card? The Realtek cards have, at least in the past, been poor performers for > me.
That's mostly the rl(4) ones, re(4) are pretty much ok. Not *great*, but really nothing to complain about (unless you want full-sized jumbos). They have no problem pushing 500Mb/sec or so.