On Mon, Jun 16, 1997 at 01:20:18PM -0700, Bill Studenmund wrote:

> Weird. Now at work, the cheepie card seems fine. I guess this is my first
> first-hand introduction to the joys of PC hardware. :-)

If it was a speed problem, it depends on the speed of the transmitting
system _and_ the CPU speed of the machine with the cheap Ethernet card.
For example, if I put a cheap card with a very small receive buffer in
a 486 box and transfer data to it from a fast pentium with a PCI Ethernet
card, the 486 loses packets miserably.  However, if I transfer data from
an old Amiga (which is slow), everything works just fine (althoug slow :-)

  -jm


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