I searched the whole amiga.org site and forum threads for the answer to this question, but got nothing, so I'll ask it here and hope is has not been beaten to death before and I just missed finding it.
Which is the best Amiga Zorro bus Ethernet card? (I own all of the below choices and will put the best in my A4000s, second best in the A3000s, and slowest in my A2000s)
1. Commodore A2065 Rev.3 (used)
2. Hydra Systems Amiganet Rev.1.1 (used)
3. ASDG Inc. EB920 (used)
4. X-Surf Version 2.0 (new, never used)
5. None of the above, fill in the blank ______________
One other consideration is the other controllers that are part of the X-Surf cards (IDE & clock ports) and which Amiga models will benefit the most from having those ports, if any. Clock ports might be useful in the future for adding USB or something. The A2000s both have GVP TekMagic 060/50mHz accelerators, A3000Ds both have WarpEngine 040/40mHz accelerators, A3000T has Commodore 3640 (or is it 3460, I can't remember) 040/25mHz accelerator, A4000Ts both have CyberStormPPC 233mHz+060/60mHz accelerators
2nd question:
I have 5 ethernet cards (need to find numbers 6, 7 &
to install and create my Amiga LAN, actually I want to add the big box Amigas to my existing LAN which consists of a cable modem connected to a wireless router that has 4 ethernet RJ45 ports, one of which is being used by my Dell tower running Windows XP Media Center Edition. There are 3 laptops that also connect to this network via wireless as well as two other tower PCs that have wireless adapters. I also want to add my A1200-060 via wireless connection sometime later.
So with 3 remaining empty RJ45 Ethernet ports empty, what is the best way to add between 5 and 8 big box Amigas? Consider that all the big box Amigas are located close to the router and Dell tower in one massive wall shelving unit that I just built myself, so there won't be any long ethernet wire runs.
Thanks in advance for any advice. :-D
