driver stability between different NIC chipsets

[jarthel]

If there is a ranking of NIC chipsets based on driver stability (windows XP/vista), what would it be?

I suppose Intel would be at the top followed by either marvell/broadcom?

thank you for the replies

 

[Elledan]

What do you mean with stability precisely? BSODs? Dropped packets/connections?

In my experience it mostly depends on the implementation. Intel is generally just fine, as is Realtek, as well as the others. I have seen some mainboards with really flaky (Broadcom, nVidia NForce) NIC implementations whereby a $5 Realtek NIC solved all issues.