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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!hookup!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!grape.epix.net!epix.net!razor From: razor@epix.net Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: ethernet cards (3COM?) Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 06:46:26 Organization: epix.net Lines: 41 Message-ID: <razor.57.0006C5FE@epix.net> References: <3cgprj$iaq@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lwbyppp1.epix.net X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev A] In article <3cgprj$iaq@agate.berkeley.edu> mds@rich.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Mark D. Spiller) writes: >From: mds@rich.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Mark D. Spiller) >Subject: ethernet cards (3COM?) >Date: 12 Dec 1994 06:16:19 GMT >Hi - >I was wondering if anyone out there could give a recommendation >on a good, FAST, reliable ethernet card that I could get up >and running quickly on my 486/66? I took a quick skim through >the faq, and saw that there were quite a few supported, but >would like to get some first hand experiences from the net... >I was considering the 3COM 3C503 16 bit... But was wondering, >how does it compare to the 509? ( I noticed that lots of people >in the newsgroup had trouble with that one...) >Thanks for any info! >Mark D. Spiller >mds@ic.eecs.berkeley.edu Mark, I have been advised by different people and application distributors to use the 3COM 3C503/16 card also. It usually comes with an EtherLink II/16 adapter as well. I am using MicroStation software for CADD applications from Intergraph in Huntsville. I have this card on an older 386/33 using BYERS PC-XNS software to tie my PC DOS operating system to our UNIX system so we can pass files back and forth between the two. We need to zip and unzip files for clients using DOS, but do our work on a UNIX platform. BYERS recommends and supports this card. I later installed a 486/66 based workstation in another part of our building for similar applications but with the added ability of running MicroStation on a PC platform (less expen$e) but to continue referencing our files on the UNIX system without any conversion. On this machine I was advised by my vendor to use a different card. I did as he recommended and had nothing but trouble. Do I remember which card it was ? No, sorry. Too much water has passed over the dam since then. I swapped him for a 3COM 3C503/16 again and all my problems disappeared. Sure I could run a 32 bit card, but the 16 is faster than we can think anyway when we are designing.