Sounds like you need to think about using STP shielded cabling if you have that much noise on the LAN. -> -----Original Message----- -> From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org -> [mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Douglas Quebbeman -> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 7:21 AM -> To: 'classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org' -> Subject: RE: HP & Compaq -> -> -> > > They BOUGHT it...BOUGHT != KILLED. Now Tulip chips have -> Intel logos -> > > on them. At least I'm pretty sure I've seen some...it may -> have been a -> > > nightmare or something. ;) -> > -> > Those el-cheapo Linksys cards that I like because the newer ones rarely -> > fail on me and when they do they are cheap to replace, are Tulip. And -> > they're faster because of it. -> -> I hope you don't mean the EtherFast 10/100 LNE100TX cards... they are -> *way* too sensitive to noisy LANs... I've had to pull several and replace -> them with either Intel Pro/100 adapters, or drop back to some old 3Com -> 3c509 10Mbps combo cards... Of course, YMMV, etc... -> -> -dq ->