Farallon also made some unconventional Ethernet devices (expansion cards and AAUI transceivers) branded EtherWave. These have two utp connectors and are designed to be  daisy chained, with a maximum of eight devices on a chain. This is way from standard Ethernet and best avoided except for experimentation. Farallon EtherMac products are standard Ethernet.

Asante helped define the 100Mbps Fast Ethernet standard, so all of their later devices should work correctly. There is a known negotiation problem with older Asante cards which is fixed by inserting a dumb hub in the network between card and switch.