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- From: claevius@firefly.prairienet.org (Brent Busby)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: New ethernet card?
- Date: 20 Mar 1996 15:24:04 GMT
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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- Eric Edwards (Eric@wolf359.exile.org) wrote:
- : 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.
-
- Okay. Well, my other question was, are the other parallel ports good for
- use with a parallel interface capable modem like the ZyXEL Elite, or are
- they really only fast enough to handle connection to a printer, or maybe
- for use with a parallel port network connection, like ParNet?
-
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- Amiga /// | | "They had a glow-in-the-dark
- 040 /// | Brent Busby ("Sequencer") | Santa in their yard. Santa
- \\\/// | claevius@prairienet.org | isn't radioactive, is he?
- \XX/ | | Cool beans. Nuclear Santa."
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