biased feeling against 3com

[Brian Densmore]

Wow! I've never had any problems with 3Com NICs. I've found them to be
very reliable in Linux/Win/dual boot. I have 3C905Bs and had only one
problem with them. One had bet forced and set into 10MB half duplex
mode. This required a reset from dos. Of course 3Coms are expensive so I
only buy used ones. I actually prefer 3Coms. Had problems with some
others, currently have a stock of some real cheapy no-name NICs I bought
for a great value. I had to upgrade my kernel to use them because of the
driver issues. But they've been great since.

-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Thurmond [mailto:p_thurmond at yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 12:27 AM
To: Aaron; kclug at kclug.org
Subject: Re: biased feeling against 3com

I agree with you in cross platform and brand use, but I will definitely
stress that 3COM is a waste of money. I used to help run a network for a
school district and the main Admin was obsessed with 3Com and we got an
order of 200 3c905b nics and none of them worked on any dual-boot
windows nt-98 systems, only 5 worked with Novell, none worked with
Linux, and the rest just plain didn't work. We had to exchange all 200
for a better model which gave us alot of problems and we had to reflash
half the second batch. I then convinced the Admin to try Linksys and we
NEVER had a problem, whether it was dual boot, or any version of
Windows, Linux, or Novell. And the best thing about it is that the NICs
cost half that of the 3Com nics. Sorry but 3Com will never, ever be
ordered by me in this lifetime. 

Aaron wrote: 

Now don't take this the wrong way. I don't know you and I have no idea
what
your level of experience/expertise is. This is simply my thought on this
because I see so many people in the same boat your in.

Why would you ever sink all your expertise in one vendor? Especially
with
the way this market is (and always has been). I too was a 3com based
network engineer. When they dropped all the core products I simply moved
to
Cisco. I had taken the time to study both and could move between the two
with equal proficiency, ad I can with Lucent (Ascend) and even the
crappy
low end junk (Netopia, etc...)

Again, not a personal slam, but I see this all the time. Like Linux....
I
love Linux. it's my preferred OS. I'll never give up Microsoft or
Solaris... I can administer them all equally. If some day everyone stops
using Windoze, I can move to Linux, or mayb! e everyone will suddenly
switch
to Solaris. I can do that also.

The point is that the fundamentals are all the same. It just takes a
little
tweaking (and remembering not to type ls on a dos/windows box... oh,
that's
embarrassing...) and it makes for great job security.

Aaron

----- Original Message -----
From: "mike neuliep" 
To: 
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 9:46 AM
Subject: biased feeling against 3com

> This is just my two cent's worth so don't take it as anything beyond
that:
>
> I will never recommend the purchase of any other 3com product to
anyone
ever
> again. Three weeks before they broke up the company and exited the
high
end
> switch market (which they're back into it again) I purchased $600000
worth
of
> equipment from them. Four months later our company traded all the core
> builders in for comparable cisco equipment.! 3com's decision to do
this
> basically changed my care! er because previous to that I had been a
3com
based
> network engineer deploying 3com routers, switches and remote access
devices
> where ever I worked. This company has no customer loyalty and the
support
> is not very good. Hell it was never very good even when I did advocate
their
> products. *sigh* Only if I had started in with cisco products from day
one
> I might have had a better career...
>
> Mike


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