PurSuiT Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 LanReady 10/100/1000Mbps 32-bit PCI Ethernet Adapter for $20 shipped. Looks to be the same chip and design as the Intel for 2/3 less of a price. Still looking for some more info on it. Can only find the Data Sheet from the manufactures web site. No reviews yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B.Ob. Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 Hmmm, that looks like the onboard Realtek gigabit chip I've seen on a couple of motherboards.... Now i gotta go thru some reviews and find it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B.Ob. Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 It certainly has the Realtek logo on it if I have the wrong chip. If I got the right chip, it has a nice 64k buffer on it, like the Intel, and HAS the tcp/ip checksum offload!!! "The RTL8169S is fully compliant with Microsoft® NDIS5 (IP, TCP, UDP) Checksum and Segmentation Task-offload features, and supports IEEE 802.1Q Virtual bridged Local Area Network (VLAN). The above features contribute to lowering CPU utilization, especially benefiting performance when in operation as a server network card." RTL8169S-32/64 Single-Chip Gigabit NIC Ethernet Controller info here Realtek data sheet: here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParoxysM Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 How about $17 shipped?!?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B.Ob. Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 Or here for bitmap image. Inspecting the picture closer, it appears to end with 169S-32, so it looks like a match!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PurSuiT Posted January 13, 2004 Author Share Posted January 13, 2004 I see the differences now Intel Pro/1000 MT LanReady LA-1000 Trendware/Trendnet Gigabit TEG-PCITXM Most sites now do not even list the 2 chip design anymore, looks like all the manufactures switched to the 1 chip design. Netgear still kept the heatsink though... NETGEAR Gigabit GA302T Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B.Ob. Posted January 14, 2004 Share Posted January 14, 2004 Hmmm, the Trendware uses the (I think) Marvel gigabit chip, which didn't offer any CPU offloading. I wonder what chipset the Netgear card uses? I like the Netgear box: "More throughput than the competition". I wonder what they consider their competition, other giga-bit nics, or the old skewl 10/100 cards!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B.Ob. Posted January 14, 2004 Share Posted January 14, 2004 Netgear FAQs #3 Question: Does the GA302T have TCP/IP Checksum offload? Answer: Yes, for those operating systems that support it (Windows Me, Windows 2000), the drivers for the GA302T do support Checksum offload. With this enabled, the adapter performs the cycle-intensive process of calculating the CRC, instead of the host CPU, thereby improving overall system performance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nemesis Posted January 14, 2004 Share Posted January 14, 2004 Hmmm... very interesting read. So now the question is this... is the LanReady GigaNIC just as good as the Intel GigaNIC that U & Pursuit are running OR am I better off w/ the actual Intel GigaNIC?? -- Nem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B.Ob. Posted January 14, 2004 Share Posted January 14, 2004 Hmmm... very interesting read. So now the question is this... is the LanReady GigaNIC just as good as the Intel GigaNIC that U & Pursuit are running OR am I better off w/ the actual Intel GigaNIC?? -- Nem Impossible to say without at least a few reviews out there, or trying it ourselves. The biggest IF is whether or not the offloading is exposed in the drivers, and really works. Certainly from the Netgear card, that seems to be announcing they have that feature, so I would expect them to have the driver ready for that. Funny that Netgear didn't mention WinXP thou, just WinME and Win2000. Personally, since I have 3 Intel 1000/MT's already, I like staying with the same driver set. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PurSuiT Posted January 14, 2004 Author Share Posted January 14, 2004 I am seeing a pattern here: Aopen AOG-501K (Same Chip LanReady) EDIMAX EN-9230TX-32 (Same Chip LanReady) ZONET ZEN3300E (Same Chip LanReady) (In fact same card as above) Linksys EG1032 (Same Chip as Trendware/Trendnet) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PurSuiT Posted January 14, 2004 Author Share Posted January 14, 2004 Seems from the cards that I have found so far to be only 3 different chips that are being used. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B.Ob. Posted January 15, 2004 Share Posted January 15, 2004 Hmmm, sounds like computer monitors..... Except they have to write drivers for these nics, unless the chipset manufacturers have a baseline driver set already complete. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PurSuiT Posted January 20, 2004 Author Share Posted January 20, 2004 EDIMAX Gigabit Ethernet Adapter Review Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B.Ob. Posted January 20, 2004 Share Posted January 20, 2004 EDIMAX Gigabit Ethernet Adapter Review spoiler: "After testing these cards I am very impressed. The price and performance show that Gigabit is here for everyone; something that would have been unheard of as little as a year ago. If you are in the market for a new NIC, and even if your current switch is only 10/100, I would recommend taking a look at these NIC's. For the price of only $25.00, which is just about the same price as 3COM 10/100, about $8 - $10 higher than the mid-level manufacturers, and less than anyone else's 10/100/1000 NIC's; you simply can not go wrong with this card." Not bad for the price, I'll stick with my Intel for now.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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