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Re: recommendation of a good ethernet card



I know the transfer speed is still 10Mbits/s over BNC but I don't know it
the card works better/worse with UTP or user more/less CPU load over BNC.
That's what I was refering to.

On Thu, 24 Apr 1997, Ken Yap wrote:

> >Yeah... if your using a PCI system I whole heartedly recommend using a
> >card based on the AMD PC-Net chipset. I use it in all my systems
> >(NT/Linux/95) and it works great. I also get really good transfers over
> >UTP... never tried BNC though.
>
> Should be the same transfer rate. Ethernet is 10 Mbits/s whatever the
> media. Well, UTP allows things like switched ethernet but let's not
> get into that.
>



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