On 8 Nov 2000 jack at jacku.com wrote:
> FWIW I used to run the labs at Duluth Business Univ. and before I got
> there the stock card they put in was the 3C905B-TX. (And an earlier
> 905 variant) We had no end of trouble under Win 95 with some of these
> cards. In many machines (maybe 20%-30%) they would occasionally "lose
> contact" with the network. The only way regain a connection was to
> shutdown (not restart) the system, count to 15 or 20, and reboot. This
> worked 99% of the time. The other 1% required doing the process twice.
> (Usually because the wait was not long enough.)
> 
> Take what you will from that information. Personally I would replace
> your card with an equivilant Linksys card. At DBU we switched to
> Linksys while I was there and only one failure and that was a DOA
> card.

I've had bad luck with driver support on Linksys.

IMHO, Netgear or Intel is the way to go.

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