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Summary: A bargain that works
Review: I read all the reviews on this product before I purchased it, and frankly a few of the reviews left me with some doubts. But after checking out other models on this and other sites, I figured that, at this price, it's worth a shot.The card installs easily and I've had no problems with it during a month of operation (which included some pretty intense thunderstorms). The bottom line is, it's a bargain that works.
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Summary: Works Well With Red Hat Linux, Windows 9x
Review: I use this card for my home network, and it has never given me trouble. I reccomend it for people wanting to quickly get a home network up and running. Provided you pay attention to the network configuration requirements for your particular OS, this card is most unlikely to give you trouble. If you think you have a card problem carefully recheck your config work a few times first before blaming the card. This card works great in Red Hat Linux AND Windows. It is the only Netgear card certified for Red Hat Linux 7. As a matter of fact I'm ordering a 4th FA-310TX card to replace a Linksys card right now. I'm involved in Linux and am presently converting an Emachines box to a 100% Red Hat Linux 7 machine. I ran into trouble with the Linksys FastEthernet 10/100 (Version 2) card in this box. It turns out Red Hat 7 can see that card, but not the Linksys chip, so I need to replace it. End of my use of Linksys cards (but they work just great in Windows networks and I have a complete Linksys-based network running for a client as well.) I'll probably stick to Netgear in the future.
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Summary: Works Fine for me
Review: I used this card at college with out T3 LAN and now at home for my personal network between my and my parents computers, and it works fine. Maybe others got a bad one with a burnt transistor or something, but mine works fine.
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Summary: Iffy Quality & Stability. Skip this one!
Review: I work in Cable Modem operations. We have some customers who buy cheap, and often problematic NIC's, ony to face hours of endless troubleshooting on NIC issues. The NetGear FA-310 is one of their biggest problems. Made of flimsy greenboard and "? " type Chinese components, NetGear's crusade of inexpensive NIC's has made a joke of consistentcy. The price may be attractive, yet you would be hard-pressed to find any company who would commit to using NetGear NIC's throughout their operation: Simply because the service and quality is inconsistent. NetGear's customer support is short of laughable, as well. You get what you pay for. From my point of view, I would avoid NetGear, Linksys, or any other "Off-Brand" NIC and consider looking for one more dependable. You may pay a little more for a 3Com, Intel, and SMC, but they are worth the price. They offer the consistency and stability every NIC user should demand - Not just a discount price.
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Summary: This card is a great buy
Review: I would highly recommend this card -- I too am an MCSE and manage a medium sized LAN/WAN environment. I have used several of these cards in my local LAN and have found them to be easy to set up and completely reliable. In my opinion, the assumed super-reliability of the 3Com card is completely offset by the excessive price. Save some money and buy the Netgear card.
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Summary: Netgear FA310TX is the best NIC on the market...
Review: I would never recommend another network card... this card was perfectly detected by 2 verisons of Linux I have, as well as a copy of UNIX without any installation. The card is extremely reliable and my company has bought 20 without any problems, especially good for retail machines like COMPAQ's. PCI card requires no assigning IRQ's. Fast 100Mbps, and great support. Comes with a driver disk with any driver for any OS. Fully supported in Win2k as well... even better than the classic NE2000!
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Summary: Awesome card at a great price.
Review: I'm moderately comfortable with my PC's innards, but I'm no hardware guru. Therefore, I was extremely pleased when this card installed with the ease the documentation (and other Amazon reviewers) promised. The low price was icing on the cake.
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Summary: you could pay more for 3com but...
Review: I've been using this for 2 years now. I've never had any problems so far. Windows 2k, Me, 98, 95, 3.11, 3.1? No Problems. This product works great and is *so* easy to install.
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Summary: Not a good card.
Review: I've experienced consistent shutdown problems and lock-ups when using this Netgear card with Windows ME. I've simce switched to a D-Link card and all of my shutdown problems went away. My advice is to avoid this card and go with D-Link or LinkSys.
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Summary: No problems!
Review: I've used Intel, 3Com and D-Link cards in the past, and I can say that I've had my fare share of problems with 3Com and D-Link, but the NetGear FA-310TX worked first time in my NT/Linux system(s), and I'm very happy with them. At this price/performance point it's hard to justify a more expensive brand.
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