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- From: Eric@wolf359.exile.org (Eric Edwards)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: New ethernet card?
- Message-ID: <PDLgy*wp2@wolf359.exile.org>
- Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 06:45:07 GMT
- References: <313A002B.5046@earthlink.net> <4hdjca$gql@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <va3f7bu65c.fsf@kea.doc.ic.ac.uk>
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- In article <4il54j$mue@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, Brent Busby writes:
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- > Typical ethernet connectivity will give you about nine or
- > ten meg per second, which is pretty close to what the bandwidth of the
- > A3000/4000's Zorro-III 32-bit bus is. So why are all the ethernet cards
- > out there Zorro-II?
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- Etherenet run at 10Mhz, giving a maximum theoretical bandwidth of 10
- MegaBITS per second. This gives 1.2MB/s, well within spec for ZorroII.
- Real life speeds are slower still.
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