DID I GET RIPPED OFF?

[Rhino302]

How much did you pay? I actually bought two Realtek 8139 cards (which work good except the driver disks both went bad, had to get drivers off the net) for 12 bucks apeice

[tacotime]

Ok I think I got ripped off then...
I got it for $25 Canadian

[Eli]

Was it brand new? $25 Canadian isn't too bad.

[tacotime]

I bought a SMC EZ Card 10/100 Mbps Fast Ethernet PCI Card (SMC1244TX) but inside the box was a Realtek RTL(A)8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter

Did I get ripped off?!?!??!
I don't know much about Ethernet cards so...
should Ireturn the product?

[Sixpac]

I don't think you got ripped off because I've been using SMC cards since the ISA days and they've been really good to me. Plus they have very good tech support. For $25 I think you got a fair deal.

Sixpac>>>>

[wyvrn]

Realtek makes chipsets for a lot of manufacturers, including SMC. Usually SMC will rebadge the cards with their name but usually it will still have the Realtek chipset markings on it. Maybe SMC got lazy on this one.