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- From: "TOMMY K. HWANG" <thwang@home.mysolution.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: New ethernet card?
- Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 19:34:36 -0500
- Organization: INTERNET SOLUTIONS INC. OF FORT WAYNE
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- Eric Edwards wrote:
- >
- > In article <4il54j$mue@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, Brent Busby writes:
- >
- > > 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?
- >
- > 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.
-
- What are those ethernet boards people are selling that can do
- 100Megabits? Like that one for the A2000/060 board?
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