From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <007701c0cd29$6ff3dd60$b30096c2@SOMA> From: "Boyd Roberts" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: Subject: Re: [9fans] 10/100 pcmcia ethernet recommendation MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 03:45:40 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8e706f06-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 From: > Any recommendations for a stress-free existence? don't use 'em. > The plug on my 3c589 dongle looks like someone > sat on it, and is not long for this world. i got my replacement for my 3CCFE574BT today, after a two month wait. the design is different and more robust, but it'll break sooner or later. 3com are in my 'book of bad people'. boggs is more my style. if you have a lapdog go for a built in adapter with and RJ-45 socket. my new lapdop (another goddamn vaio) has that. not much point having it really when the ASDL idiots take the ADSL net down when i wan't to use it, so it's back to V.90 with another ISP. i think the ADSL idiots have just realised they're in deep and serious and it's just gonna crash and burn. motto: always have two paths, but 3 is better. -- Boyd Roberts boyd@planete.net [trouble] seems to know pretty much where I am, most of the time. -- Riggs