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I was unhappy with my Gigabit Network card
It was a D-Link card cannot recall the model name I have the card in my
hands but it is hard to tell from that. Anyway I was unhappy with it because to work at the speed it was advertised to work I had to install a driver and control pannel applet. This thing the applet was hooked to had to run all the time and of course it sat in my System Tray Windows 2000 Advance Server SP4. I would prefer to have a Gigabit Network Card that did not require some thing to always be running to use it at that speed. Does anyone know of such a Gigabit card that can run at the speed it was made for without these constantly running menu systems? Thanks. -- George Hester _________________________________ |
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I was unhappy with my Gigabit Network card
On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 01:24:13 GMT, "George Hester"
wrote: It was a D-Link card cannot recall the model name I have the card in my hands but it is hard to tell from that. Generally the brand is not of much consequence, rather you can note the markings on the main chip. IIRC, mostly D-Link sells the low-end Realtek 8169 based cards, http://www.realtek.com.tw/products/p...odelid=2003042 Anyway I was unhappy with it because to work at the speed it was advertised to work I had to install a driver and control pannel applet. ?? Of course you need a driver, it goes without saying. Control panel applet should not be necessary, if you can ID this card's chipset then try the newest driver from the chipset manufacturer. IE- realtek would be that as per the chip mentioned above. This thing the applet was hooked to had to run all the time and of course it sat in my System Tray Windows 2000 Advance Server SP4. Since this is a Server (?) perhaps I have jumped to conclusions about the NIC, the odds shift towards it being something other than Realtek 8169 but getting this info from you could be useful. Regardless, it should not need any helper app, just the bare driver to work. Windows itself will put a networking icon down in the system tray, but I don't know if that's what you mean or not and that icon can be disabled, it simply shows whether the network connection is live or not. I would prefer to have a Gigabit Network Card that did not require some thing to always be running to use it at that speed. You don't have to run anything, just the driver. You might be able to simply go into Add/Remove programs and uninstall this software, but if it uninstalls the driver too, download the latest driver, JUST the driver not some large super-installation-thingamajig from the chipset manufacturer. Does anyone know of such a Gigabit card that can run at the speed it was made for without these constantly running menu systems? Thanks. All of them can. |
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I was unhappy with my Gigabit Network card
"kony" wrote in message
... On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 01:24:13 GMT, "George Hester" wrote: It was a D-Link card cannot recall the model name I have the card in my hands but it is hard to tell from that. Generally the brand is not of much consequence, rather you can note the markings on the main chip. IIRC, mostly D-Link sells the low-end Realtek 8169 based cards, http://www.realtek.com.tw/products/p...odelid=2003042 Anyway I was unhappy with it because to work at the speed it was advertised to work I had to install a driver and control pannel applet. ?? Of course you need a driver, it goes without saying. Control panel applet should not be necessary, if you can ID this card's chipset then try the newest driver from the chipset manufacturer. IE- realtek would be that as per the chip mentioned above. This thing the applet was hooked to had to run all the time and of course it sat in my System Tray Windows 2000 Advance Server SP4. Since this is a Server (?) perhaps I have jumped to conclusions about the NIC, the odds shift towards it being something other than Realtek 8169 but getting this info from you could be useful. Regardless, it should not need any helper app, just the bare driver to work. Windows itself will put a networking icon down in the system tray, but I don't know if that's what you mean or not and that icon can be disabled, it simply shows whether the network connection is live or not. I would prefer to have a Gigabit Network Card that did not require some thing to always be running to use it at that speed. You don't have to run anything, just the driver. You might be able to simply go into Add/Remove programs and uninstall this software, but if it uninstalls the driver too, download the latest driver, JUST the driver not some large super-installation-thingamajig from the chipset manufacturer. Does anyone know of such a Gigabit card that can run at the speed it was made for without these constantly running menu systems? Thanks. All of them can. Well kony I will try it again but from what I recall the damn applet application had to be installed. It is in that where the configuration of the card is done. I did try the Network applet in Control Panel but in that there was a lot less that could be done to configure the card. Oh and I did try to stop the applet from initializing at boot (it is sitting in the Run key in the registry HKLM) but the card wouldn't work at all then. I will give it another shot. -- George Hester _________________________________ |
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I was unhappy with my Gigabit Network card
On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 04:20:51 GMT, "George Hester"
wrote: Well kony I will try it again but from what I recall the damn applet application had to be installed. It is in that where the configuration of the card is done. What is the card chipset? What configuration? Is it not autodetection? Typically any further config can be done in the properties for the card, the driver itself includes these parameters accessible in Device Manager or Networking control panel. I did try the Network applet in Control Panel but in that there was a lot less that could be done to configure the card. Oh and I did try to stop the applet from initializing at boot (it is sitting in the Run key in the registry HKLM) but the card wouldn't work at all then. I will give it another shot. Knowing the exact hadware you have is a start, ie- the chipset it uses since only a brand and model won't help anyone who doesn't have the same make and model, though by looking at the driver files themselves we might be able to determine it. |
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