Life expectancy of inexpensive cards [?]

How long do low cost PCI (desktop) wireless NICs last? I mean how long
they provide good and stable connection in the same environment?

In article <(E-Mail Removed) .com>, "Eugene F." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>How long do low cost PCI (desktop) wireless NICs last? I mean how long
>they provide good and stable connection in the same environment?
>

Depends!!!!

depends on who assembled the card
depends on who made the caps, the resistors, the chips
depends on the heat levels outside the computer which inturn impact heat
inside the computer
depends on how well isolated the backplane is from the power in the wall

Depends!!!

fundamentalism, fundamentally wrong.

On 26 Oct 2006 14:35:19 -0700, "Eugene F." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>How long do low cost PCI (desktop) wireless NICs last? I mean how long
>they provide good and stable connection in the same environment?

Usually until the warranty expires.

So far, I haven't seen any failed PCI wireless cards out of about 25
or so I deal with in various systems. The "failures" are upgrades
inspired by buggy drivers, 802.11b only, and security upgrades.
There's very little power dissipated in the radio section so meltdown
is unlikely. Basically, they'll last as long as any typical PC plug
in card.

A few cards have MTBF statistics which might be useful to estimate the
life expectancy. I'm too lazy to Google for that.

Are you expecting a failure?



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