I have quote a bit of experience (operationally) with the we and ec
cards.  Neither of them is a stellar performer when it comes to
throughput.  In fact, my tests with the ec cards put the top end of the
performance at about 400kB/s on a shared network segment.

I have a 10/100 switch now as the backbone for the system, and most of
the older cards (we and ec, mostly) run on the older computers.  Since
they don't perform any better on the switch than they did on the coax, I
just left them on the coax (or plugged into a hub).

Jon Lindgren wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 2 Feb 2001 wojtek@wojtek.from.pl wrote:
> 
> > > to spare, both in CPU and memory.  Quite snappy, except for the ISA
> > > network cards, which only get about 600K/s.
> >
> > what cards? 3c509 gives over 900kB/s
> 
> On the integrated le interfaces (AMD79c960), we cards (Western
> Digital) and ec cards (Etherlink II).  I've verified it's not the
> switch/hub, as other cards (de and tlp cards) as well as my sparcs run at
> close to 980K/s.
> 
> -
> Jon
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