Agreed, a serial port expansion will offer faster bitrates.
If you have a Zorro capable Amiga, I do have a couple of
Multiface3 I/O cards available. These offer serial speeds up to 115200 baud, see the review on
Aminet. For pricing look
here under Amiga Accessories.
Otherwise there's the SilverSurfer expansion for the A1200 or cards with a clock port and the VarIO from
Individual Computers.