Vista - Recommend wired network adapter (NIC)

I'm finally looking at installing Vista at my office. However, I have
noticed that the network adapters (NIC) that I use do not (and may
not) have Vista drivers for them.

What is a good brand of network adapters (NIC) that are XP / Vista
compatible?

Which adapters do you have now, they will probably work.
Run the Vista upgrade advisor check and you'll get a report
on your hardware and software.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pro...deadvisor.mspx



"smlunatick" <yveslec@gmail.com> wrote in message
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| I'm finally looking at installing Vista at my office.
However, I have
| noticed that the network adapters (NIC) that I use do not
(and may
| not) have Vista drivers for them.
|
| What is a good brand of network adapters (NIC) that are XP
/ Vista
| compatible?
|

I've used Linksys NIC's with no issues. Although you can run the Vista
Advisor to see if a driver is built in with Vista.

Some NIC's don't have drivers with Vista, and no drivers available. But,
most new Linksys and Dlink have drivers.

--
Dustin Harper
dharper@vistarip.com
http://www.vistarip.com

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"smlunatick" <yveslec@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1173819537.393029.75730@n76g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
> I'm finally looking at installing Vista at my office. However, I have
> noticed that the network adapters (NIC) that I use do not (and may
> not) have Vista drivers for them.
>
> What is a good brand of network adapters (NIC) that are XP / Vista
> compatible?
>

In article <1173819537.393029.75730@n76g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>,
smlunatick says...
> I'm finally looking at installing Vista at my office. However, I have
> noticed that the network adapters (NIC) that I use do not (and may
> not) have Vista drivers for them.
>
> What is a good brand of network adapters (NIC) that are XP / Vista
> compatible?
>
Anything that has a Realtek 8192 chipset. You'll find it in many of the
$5 PCI NICs and you'll be hard pressed to find an OS that doesn't
support it out of the box except for DOS of course.


--
Conor

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright
until you hear them speak.........

"smlunatick" <yveslec@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1173819537.393029.75730@n76g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
> I'm finally looking at installing Vista at my office. However, I have
> noticed that the network adapters (NIC) that I use do not (and may
> not) have Vista drivers for them.
>
> What is a good brand of network adapters (NIC) that are XP / Vista
> compatible?
>


you might want to spend some time over in the networking_sharing NG before
you introduce Vista into your business environment...
if for nothing else. just to see what you can expect. [it ain't pretty]

"Dustin Harper" <dharper@vistarip.com> wrote in message
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> I've used Linksys NIC's with no issues. Although you can run the Vista
> Advisor to see if a driver is built in with Vista.
>
> Some NIC's don't have drivers with Vista, and no drivers available. But,
> most new Linksys and Dlink have drivers.
>
> --
> Dustin Harper
> dharper@vistarip.com
> http://www.vistarip.com

Dustin, the older 3Com 3C905-TX series are all Vista-ready (drivers are
included with the OS) back to the original 3C905-TX (the last iteration is
the 3C905-TX-C). It's both PCI and utterly Plug and Play. The same applies
to the Intel PRO/100 (and older PRO/1000) series NICs (and built-in
Intel-branded *wired* Ethernet controllers in various Intel-chipset
motherboards).


Christopher L. Estep