[TriLUG] Customer service stinks

[Magnus Hedemark]

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Mike M wrote:

> It's got a Realtek (realcrap) 8139 embedded on the mobo so I'm
> not suprised there's problems.

Just to cast a differing opinion on this, I've got a bunch of the Realtek 
8139 adapters deployed and they have been nothing but dependable for me.  
Eyeballing my almost empty box lot, I would guess I've got about 23 
deployed now.

You may very well have a bad NIC or system board, but I don't see how 
Realtek deserves this slam in light of just one problemed unit.