Netgear NIC FA310TX (network adapter)

[Parabellum]

Hi,

I am searching a good networking device to start a home network. I was planning to pick 2 3Com network adapters or D-Link but someone pointed me out Netgear instead... Is it a good NIC (FA310TX)? At least, they are VERY cheap (15$US). I think I will pick a FB104 starter kit if those cards are good enough. Do I need a hub when I want to hook up 2 computers on a network with RJ-45 NIC?

Thanks for any help.

Parabellum

[Mark F]

I've had great luck with a Linksys switched kit. I've seen then available for under $100US. The kit includes 2 NICs and a 5 port switch (better than a hub). Good kit.

If you are only going to network 2 PCs you don't need a hub or switch. You need to get a cross-over (not a standard patch) cable. You use it to hook the them NIC to NIC, and are all set.

Just a couple of options.

Mark F.

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OH NO, my retractable cup holder swallowed a DVD...
and burped out a movie

[Delany]

Hi,

I have a Netgear FA310TX NIC and haven't had any problems with it at all. It's spoken to many and varied other NIC's through Kingston switches & Hubs, Samsung switches and a generic 10Mb hub.

The card itself quite happily changes between 10/100MB and is capable of full duplex.

Overall, they don't seem to bad for the price...

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Gigabyte GA686BX, 128MB PC100 Ram, Millenium G400 MAX, Creative Labs SBLive!, Netgear FA310TX, AOpen 10xDVD/40xCD Drive, Imation LS120, 5.2 & 12.7GB Quantum HD's, Everything being driven by Win98...or occassionally Redhat Linux 6.0

Bored Yet?



[This message has been edited by Delany (edited 23 February 2000).]

[RoGuE]

I'm using a Netgear FA310TX, and a Linksys LNE100TX, both excellent cards.

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System 1:
Microstar K7Pro (MS-6195) Motherboard, AMD Athlon 550 @ 900MHz, 256MB PC-100 CAS2 SDRAM, Matrox Millennium G400 DualHead Max, Matrox Rainbow Runner G-Series, Creative Soundblaster Live! Player 1024, Promise FastTak66 RAID Controller, 2 x 13.5GB IBM ATA/66 HDD's, Panasonic SR-8584 6x DVD-ROM, Yamaha CRW8424 IDE CDR/RW, Panasonic SuperDisk LS-120, Netgear FA310TX 100m/bit PCI NIC.

System 2:
Microstar MS-6167 Motherboard, AMD Athlon 500 @ 750MHz, 128MB PC-133 SDRAM, Matrox Millennium G400 DualHead, Creative Soundblaster Live! Value, 22GB IBM ATA/66 HDD, Hitachi GD-2500 4x DVD-ROM, Linksys LNE100TX 100m/bit PCI NIC.