Comment by daneel_w
10 hours ago
I've used tons of Realtek stuff since the early 2000s and have had only one single device misbehave - the infamous RTL8139 Fast Ethernet which had many bad batches unleashed onto the world. I have both bad and good versions of this chip. It burned a lot of people back then, many of whom to this day stubbornly refuse to grow up from their trauma, and keep saying that everything Realtek is bad and can never be trusted.
It’s actually kinda funny when people say they’d only use Intel NICs (because of their good experience with e1000e), but then you look at Intel’s NGBASE-T (2.5/5 Gbit/s) trash fire or the X710 issues and they’ve just not been good for post-gigabit consumer-ish stuff. Granted, maybe the 19th stepping of i225 finally fixed something, I dunno.