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maninacan
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Seattle, WA, USA
Insane since: Oct 2001

posted posted 07-12-2002 21:50

Hello, I'm looking to purchase 2 nics before august. I want the cheapest, and yet still functional nics I can get. One will be for a winME system, and one for a win98SE system. I found this: http://www.computers4sure.com/product.asp?ProductID=94827&CatID=860&IID=860 which seems to be the cheapest, although I don't know too much about nics so I was wondering if someone could look it over for me and tell me if it'd work. These two nics are mainly for lan parties, although maybe some home networking later on. Well if you can tell me how good this nic is, or find me a better one that's cheap please tell me.

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mr.maX
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: Belgrade, Serbia
Insane since: Sep 2000

posted posted 07-12-2002 22:01

D-Link network card that you chose will get the work done fine. I have a couple of D-Link network cards (incl. the model that you chose) and I never had any problems with them...


Hugh
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Dublin, Ireland
Insane since: Jul 2000

posted posted 07-12-2002 22:10

Im not much of a network person, but Im pretty sure all network cards that lets say use the same type of cable will work together because they meet standards. I got two completly different cards, one was made five years before the other, I got them off this guy who had them spare for ~15USD (I dont really know the conversion from IRL£ to EURO to USD)

silence
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: soon to be "the land down under"
Insane since: Jan 2001

posted posted 07-13-2002 00:56

Yup, most NICs will run without a hitch no matter the brand. I've been through several from a really old ISA NIC to a Generic Compusa NIC. They should all be made to standard so there's really little difference.

About the only problem I had was with a few netgear's that failed on us, but that could have been anything, not necessarily the NIC itself.

Kriek
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: Florida
Insane since: Jul 2001

posted posted 07-13-2002 12:01

I lived on D-Link network cards all through college.
They served me quite well. Dependable, and pretty cheap.

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viol
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: Charles River
Insane since: May 2002

posted posted 07-13-2002 18:28

Mine is a Netgear FA310TX, very cheap, very good and very windows compatible.

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