LAN/NIC problem

[tkaiser]

TL is giving one more try at getting me a good board, and I'm sending him the two bad ones I have now. I really hope the third time's the charm as I'd love to stick with the PINE family, especially since we know now we can get decent speeds over the GbE port.

Well, that's the problem with 'micro communities', they tend to create 'micro realities' In fact the GbE port is A64's fastest interface and the whole Linux software story started since GbE performance is as expected (longsleep for example uses Pine64+ for a specific use case where good GbE performance is mandatory amongst other things like virtualization)

Great to hear that your board gets replaced one more time. But I really hope Pine64 folks start to implement an improved replacement process for the affected boards (getting a couple of boards from shipping factory, testing them out and only if they're not affected by the issue shipping them as replacements -- but I fully understand that an extensive QA test booting every board is not possible given the low prices, Pine64 folks already have to suffer from rip-offs sold on Taobao)