Reply 43160 of 53188, by Cuttoon
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Kahenraz wrote on 2022-03-09, 13:40:Cuttoon wrote on 2022-03-09, 13:18:Cheap NICs are almost synonymous.
What was wrong with Realtek NICs of the time?
Nothing wrong with them, yet more fancy ones like intel or 3com were supposed to run faster and/or take load off the CPU. I did not check.
Kahenraz wrote on 2022-03-09, 13:40:I assume you're referring to the ISA ones?
Pretty much half of any add-on ethernet card before they ended up being integrated in every motherboard.
Google search for images of "PCI ethernet" and you're bound to see a lot of crabs.
I like jumpers.