Review on SunFounder Ethernet Shield W5100+Mega2560 Board Starter Kit For Arduino by Aaron Franklin

I had this piece of rock because I couldn't get it to work properly. No connection to Arduino. The pins were too long to fit, the solder under the board touched the USB connector on the Arduino board. Until I buy some Arduino connectors to form the second layer, I manage to work through the example sketches one at a time and repeat the tests. Before this HACK board, it wasn't very reliable. I'm still testing reliability as sometimes the board worked, sometimes not. Today is the first day I've been able to program Sketch and run it with an IP and a connection. There were days when I didn't get an IP. And if I code it manually, there was now an outer join. After trying different approaches I was able to get DHCP, NTP, web server and SD. Tomorrow I'll try my own application combining the thumbnails from the example to upload a web-enabled logger to a second database. Fingers crossed!