Talk:Realtek

message: Is this company still in business? The website looks brutally outdated.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.253.186.62 (talk) 12:39, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Business

message: I decided to write up a more complete article about Realtek. So I pretty much removed the previous texts in my new edit. Any changes, either grammatical or substantial, or discussions are most welcome. And because this is my first time edit in Wikipedia and obviously there must be a lot of rules and customs that I am not familiar with, if I in any way offended anyone, please forgive me and feel free to teach me a lesson.
Weberwang 09:28, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Just one note: this is an encyclopedia, not a magazine article. Critical analysis is not encouraged here; raw facts are. See WP:NOR --tyomitch 21:46, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

text: A picture would be really nice. And it would be even nicer if you could fill in :Template:Infobox_Company and put that into the article. --tyomitch 08:35, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

text: I removed the trivia because all it had was just verbal description of the logo, which everyone can see with their own eyes. I didn't know about the "crab card" name, and that one is IMO worth mentioning in the article, perhaps better in the NIC section rather than in a section of its own. --tyomitch 08:35, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

text: I'm also unconvinced about the tables. I prettied them up because they were ugly and I needed the practice, but I didn't think very much about whether they should stay there. There was not much other content at the time, and if I'd removed them there wouldn't have been much left. If they are to remain, I think they should at least have a sentence to introduce them. But I'm new at this too, so my opinion may not be the best guide. --LesleyW 14:37, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

text: Good solution, IMHO. I've just moved the links to the bottom of the page. As links, they only need a description. The awards section might be better as a list, too. --LesleyW 03:06, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

text: Today I took some time routed to take the picture. It would have been better if taken in the morning, but this can be fixed later. I also removed the link to NIC, just for now, before one of us can find a better way to address it. --Weberwang 16:22, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Nice photo. --LesleyW 21:53, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Realtek

message: I put back in place the section about the breach of Realtek's digital certificate for Windows in 2011, which allowed attacker to digitally sign malicious drivers, and was exploited to spread Stuxnet virus  without users being notified. The information is explicit on the Stuxnet page. In case such sourced information should actually be removed, as [Molo_Kra] considered, one should elaborate arguments on this talk page.
As a side note, contributions of Molo_Kra as a Wikipedia member begins on the 27th of June 2013, goes on the 28th, then vanishes after the 14th of July, 2013. At the time of writing, Molo_Kra did never contribute to any other article on Wikipedia. On the 27th of June, his very first contribution was editing the title [Security breach] to more accurately reflect contents of the paragraph. Three weeks later on the 14th of July his very last contribution was removing the whole section about that breach of Realtek's digital certificate for Windows. In the between, on the 28th of June, he updated the list of awards delivered to Realtek. 
Sounds like Realtek's PR department cares about its image on Wikipedia.
--Golffies (talk) 06:33, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Security breach 

message: "Presently the ALC850 and RTL8139 are particular OEM favorites"
I thought virtually all PCs now were coming with onboard gigabit controllers..... Plugwash 23:58, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Replaced by ALC892 and RTL8111. Yes, they have onboard gigabit nowadays but that's still a Realtek chip in many cases. Onboard 8139's however also exist in 90's computers. The OEMs that are still satisfied with 100mbit use RTL8169 or RTL8101E now as those support PCIe.I have also removed "yet-to-be-released" at 802.11n. Albert Pool (talk) 17:28, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  outdated 

message: Indeed, in the kernel source code for the FreeBSD operating system, one file goes as far as calling the 8139 card "probably the worst PCI ethernet controller ever made", noting that "the RealTek 8139 PCI NIC redefines the meaning of 'low end.'
This is no reasonable critism, but pure polemic from Bill Paul, the author of the driver. Although the 8139 is not very advantageous, there a far inferior designs on the market (i. e. VIA Rhine, ULi), that don't received this sort of critism, even in the FreeBSD source.
This paragraph is POV and should be removed. - 92.224.142.142 (talk) 13:30, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  »Critism« 

message: The website link doesn't work straight away; you have to navigate to it using its DNS record: http://152.104.125.41/default.aspx
Some users from last year tried to connect to the site and were refused, but the alternative approach was proposed to them.  My own personal criticism to them is, why is there a newer version of a soundcard driver and their website hasn't updated to reflect that yet?
http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/realtek.com.tw.html
205.214.249.177 (talk) 02:19, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cannot go directly to the website