On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 10:56:10 +0000, Grant Coady wrote:
> Ask someone who cares, technology is not a belief system, I choose
> Intel pro/100 over RTL-8139 for a 50% measured performance boost on
> _my_ equipment, and I trust the person taking the measurements.

A 50% performance boost is pretty unbelievable, don't you think? I guess
that is what you get looking at the Windows XP task manager. Anyway, I
just did some quick benchmarking with netperf. One PII-400 machine here
with a 5 year old Intel EtherExpress Pro 100 card is outperforming a
brand-new RTL8139D on a AMD64 2800+ machine. Both cards were blasting
packets to a high-end new Tulip NIC based card. The RTL8139 had a
throughtput of 93MBit, where the Intel NIC had a throughput of 95MBit.
Pretty good for a 5 year old Intel, compared to a new Realtek NIC.

The question is how both cards handle lots of different requests from
different hosts.

> I don't give a rat's ring for your opinion, I'm secure in my
> competency.

I am happy for you.

-- Daniel