Re: Recommendation for 1000BASE-T NIC
- From: AZ Nomad <aznomad.3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:57:30 -0500
On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:59:57 +0200, Stefan Malte Schumacher <s.schumacher@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
I've gone through three pci-express cards.
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.
Second was an intel EXPI9300PTBLK, based on the e1000e chipset. It would die after
30 minutes to 8 hours of operation. RMA'd board did same thing.
Error I've seen in dmesg is on a currently unresolved ticket open for
the driver.
My current card is a D-Link DGE-560T, using the sky2 driver. It works
like a champ.
For your switch, make sure it has a decent amount of buffer memory.
.
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