From: David Ross (ross_at_math.hawaii.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 03 1999 - 21:07:48 EDT
Me:
> >have an earlier model of the Livewire, and think it is a decent card. (There should be lots of New Media stuff around at
resellers, since they went belly up about a year ago,
Ted:
> However, Onsale says
> it has a 1-yr warranty provided by New Media, so might they still be
> in biz?
Or maybe reorganized - somewhat over a year ago their web page disappeared, they
stopped answering the phone, and there was an article detailing their problems on one
of the news sites I used to read. I'm pretty sure the word 'bankruptcy' was in there somewhere.
However, I see that their web page is now back, so my information has apparently been obsoleted.
This is extremely good news, since (a) their products really are quite good, and (b) I'm writing this email using a New Media
ethernet card. (I would still guess that the dumping of their cards at auction is an artifact of their problems from before - I
wonder if we'll see some inexpensive Bus Toasters soon?)
You can find information on the company producing the Trendnet cards at http://www.trendware.com/profile/profile.htm - they look
pretty decent.
- David
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