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- From: "Matthias Scheler" <tron@lyssa.owl.de>
- Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 15:53:22 +0100
- Subject: Re: New ethernet card?
- Message-ID: <39963@lyssa.owl.de>
- Organization: Private Internet Ostwestfalen-Lippe
-
- Klaus Burkert wrote in comp.sys.amiga.networking about "Re: New ethernet
- card?":
- > What you're talking about is Fast-Ethernet which is not that widespread
-
- Much worse, there is AFAIK still no official standard for Fast Ethernet.
- So if one of the Amiga boards would support Fast Ethernet there still
- weren't a guarantee that you can network it with another system supporting
- Fast Ethernet.
-
- > and the number of Amigas connected to such a net is that small, that you'd
- > sell perhaps 50 boards/year which does not make up for manufacturing and
- > developing at all.
-
- Agreed.
-
- > When you equip both machines with WarpEngine40/40s, this goes up to well
- > above 600KB/s.
-
- Indeed. An A4000/040 is already faster than a A3000/25 at least when using
- an A2065 or an Ariadne.
-
- > So what would be the point in having 100MBit/s networking on the
- > hardware level when the software limits it to below 1 MB/s?
-
- The advantage would be that you can get good transfer rates even if the are
- many hosts connected to that network causing a lot of network traffic.
-
- --
- Matthias Scheler
- tron@lyssa.owl.de
-
-