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keyshawn · 12-12-2004, 06:55 AM

d-link: bought one of their standard ethernet NICs for my comp. Couldn't get the blasted thing to work in win XP or mandrake 9.0 [this was about a year ago]. So, I called up d-link tech support, contacted some guy with broken english, told me to return the card and get a new one, I did. New card, same issue. Called again, this time they were blaming my CAT5 cable was shoddy for the NIC not working [NOTE: I got some other CAT5 Cable from my friend's dad who's in IT hardware] and it still didn't work.
So, I said screw this, took my 10 dollar loss, bought a linksys card and 15 minutes later, I was on the net on linux and win xp.

Imation I have always ran into trouble with their blank CD's. Lots of errors during burning, plus they flake pretty easily too [the top layer where you write with the sharpie upon flakes off, thus rendering the cd to be useless]

12-12-2004, 06:55 AM	#89 (permalink)
keyshawn Psycho	d-link: bought one of their standard ethernet NICs for my comp. Couldn't get the blasted thing to work in win XP or mandrake 9.0 [this was about a year ago]. So, I called up d-link tech support, contacted some guy with broken english, told me to return the card and get a new one, I did. New card, same issue. Called again, this time they were blaming my CAT5 cable was shoddy for the NIC not working [NOTE: I got some other CAT5 Cable from my friend's dad who's in IT hardware] and it still didn't work. So, I said screw this, took my 10 dollar loss, bought a linksys card and 15 minutes later, I was on the net on linux and win xp. Imation I have always ran into trouble with their blank CD's. Lots of errors during burning, plus they flake pretty easily too [the top layer where you write with the sharpie upon flakes off, thus rendering the cd to be useless]