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Re: Fastest ethernet cards?

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From: morris-kwok
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 07:04
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In article <726958035rommel.root@jonas.gold.sub.org> rommel@jonas.gold.sub.org
(Kai Uwe Rommel) writes:
>In article <1993Jan12.205307.26864@ldp.com> rolfe@ldp.com writes:
>>I'm integrating an EISA machine on which I plan to run Lanserver 3.0.  In the
 
>>collective wisdom of the net, what is the fastest ethernet card available  
>>that is supported by OS/2 (It needs to be a 10base-T card)?
>
>I have good experiences with 3COM EtherLink III cards. These are
>16-bit ISA cards but are EISA aware. That means using a utility you
>can turn it into an EISA mode so you don't have to set anything more
>and the card automatically configures during run of the EISA setup
>program (there are EISA config files included on the driver disk).
>
>I have recently built three EISA machines with these cards and tested
>them in ISA one too. They work fine and seem to be pretty fast. I have
>measured a throughput of 430...480 k/sec between two OS/2 machines
>running LAN Manager while copying large (>1MB) files.
>
>The ELNK3 comes in two variants with external transceiver connector
>and either a coax or twisted pair connector.
>
>Kai Uwe Rommel
>
One point for the Etherlink III: there is no OS/2 ODI driver for this 3c509
come with. I cannot make it to work  with the Netware Requester for OS/2 2.0. 
But this may not affect you as you are using LanMan.
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