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. -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500