it's a mettar of quality, performance and stability.

The best card out there are the 3Com 905B-TX(nm), The 3Com 905C and the Intel Pro 100+

all of those are PCI, Bus master, low latency, high efficancy cards.

and are complient with all Microjunk's HCL.

get one any those and your NIC related problems are gone.

but you can always not listen to my advise and buy some cheap, junk level ISA or PCI card, just don't come back to complain when you can't get them to work in full duplex or when you connect them to your hub and they don't work or when you install the driver and get a BSOD.

in my previous work they had 3com 509b, 590 , 900, 905b, AMD PCnet, SMC etc..
after a while all the cards were replaced to either 3com 905b/905c or Intel pro 100+ /100 VE - cut down the NIC related problems by more than 80%.



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