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Re: Re: what to offer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (KURT@POMONA.CLAREMONT.EDU)
Wed Aug 31 13:52:18 1994
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 1994 10:22:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: KURT@POMONA.CLAREMONT.EDU
To: resnet-forum@MIT.EDU
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>The main problems with external adaptors are, one: that they are nearly twice
>the price of real NIC cards and, two: that their performance is quite a bit
>worse.
>
>We sell 3COM 3C509 adaptors for PCs and Asante adaptors for Macs. We make the
>policy statement that those are the adaptors that we support and any
>connections to the network with anything else is unsupported and liable to
>disconnection without notice if any problems are caused by someone's oddball
>el-cheapo adaptor card. We do also support some external adaptors (parallel,
>SCSI, PCMCIA) for notebooks and computers that don't support the standard
>adaptor cards.
>
> - Mark
>--
>*******************************************************************************
>Mark Berman Mark.Berman@Williams.EDU
>Director, Technical Services
>Williams College, Ctr. for Computing
>Williamstown, MA. USA 01267 (413) 597-2092
>*******************************************************************************
We have a basically identical policy here at Pomona College, using 3c509,
Asante, and Cabletron cards as our recommended products. Asking them to buy
one of the supported cards doesn't seem too much to ask, or we end up with
the situation of the flaky 10% taking up 90% of our time.
Kurt Tiedtke
Academic Support Specialist
Pomona College
KURT@POMONA.CLAREMONT.EDU
