Recommendation for 1000BASE-T NIC

Hello

As the subject says : I want to upgrade my Home LAN to Gigabit
Ethernet. I have already decided on a switch but I am still unsure
which NIC to buy. Do you have any recommendations ? I am currently
considering simply going for a GA311 from Netgear, which has a Realtek
Chipset.


Bye
Stefan

Stefan Malte Schumacher wrote:

> Hello
>
> As the subject says : I want to upgrade my Home LAN to Gigabit
> Ethernet. I have already decided on a switch but I am still unsure
> which NIC to buy. Do you have any recommendations ? I am currently
> considering simply going for a GA311 from Netgear, which has a Realtek
> Chipset.
>
>
> Bye
> Stefan

I installed GA311's in four machines on my network about a year ago.
Had no problems with them. A couple of weeks ago, I installed
TrendNet TEG-PCITXR nics on two additional machines. These use the
same RTL8169 chipset as the NetGear cards. They work fine, cost less.

You won't find that the network upgrade results in a 10X speedup of
the network, but it will be noticeably faster.

On Sep 24, 12:57*pm, AZ Nomad <aznoma...@PremoveOBthisOX.COM> wrote:

> First was a Rosewill RC-401, based on the et131x chipset, ran fine for
> 10 months and died. *I hear that there's a bug in the driver that can
> damage the hardware. Suse is not recomending their latest release
> becaue of this.

If you're talking about the issue I think you're talking about, it's
fixed in the RC-401-EX. (Fixed by using a totally different chipset,
Marvell instead of Agere.)

DS