biased feeling against 3com
Marvin Bellamy
Marvin.Bellamy at innovision.com
Thu Aug 22 13:50:10 CDT 2002
I've used the old 3com cards and never had a problem. I'm curious about
the problem Patrick had with them on a dual-booting machine. I've had
issues with NICs on dual booting machines. The problem? Windows must
leave the card in some inappropriate state after a soft reboot
(restart). It sometimes takes a hard reboot (power down) to get the NIC
to work properly. Note, I had this problem on my workstation (AMD 500,
motherboard SiS), but when I upgraded the system (AMD 1600, Elite
motherboard), that problem disappeared. It took *forever* to figure
that one out :(
Brian Densmore wrote:
> 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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