Re: FN-FORUM Any recommendations for network cards

date posted 1st February 2003 15:52

Pretty much any 10/100 NIC will be fine. If you're intending to share
the connection you know you'll need either 1 machine with two NICs to
act as a router, or a suitable broadband router to sit between the
cable modem and the hub/switch?

Netgear do a neat little combined NAT router and 4 port switch for
about 36/40 quid which is great for this.

For the laptops it depends on exactly what you want, but any of the
standard cards should be fine. If it's a NIC and it works it'll work
with broadband. If you want to go posh, I have a Xircom Realport
10/100 NIC & fax-modem card sitting here idle: brand new, bought for a
project that never needed it (although it's PC-Card not PCMCIA). They
retail at around £130, or used to, but I'd be happy to let it go for
much less than that just to get rid of it.

Cheers,

--
Pete

==== Original Message:

> I'll be working in Edinburgh for the next few months so am getting
> blueyonder broadband installed in my home there.

> To facilitate this I need to install some network cards in my machines
> so looking for recommendation on pc based cards and also pcmcia cards
> that will work with blueyonder.

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