On Tuesday 26 March 2002 14:34, Munir Nassar wrote: > i beg to differ, i have had only the best from 3com cards. though i would > like to know what kind of peoblems you have had... When it comes to 905B's I have to agree with the nay-sayers. I had a situation up in Duluth where systems would randomly drop off the network. Unfortunately often happened between classes, in classrooms used by the general business courses not the Network program courses. Initially we assumed faulty wires. (Some students had done the original cabling with less then stellar results.) This was corrected and all cables tested good with a simple end-to-end tester. (Its all we had.) We eventually switched to Linksys mainly because when we needed an extra hub we got a Linksys hub and it came with a box of 10 cards. When the hub worked out and we needed a couple of more we ended up with a total of 20-25 cards. As 3Com cards failed we replaced them with the Linksys cards. Never had a problem with those Linksys cards. We eventually used all of the Linksys cards. The 3Com cards were kept in a box marked "suspect" and used in case of emergancy or in the Repair class lab. Since that experience I stick to Linksys and D-Link cards. I have had better luck with them. -- Jack Ungerleider jack at jacku.com