The best Zorro slot network card

[amigau]

well, i've had a hydra, x-surf and a couple ariadne cards

- the hydra only has a coax port, so for rj45 that's out plus it's an older and slower card.

- the x-surf worked fine and has an additional IDE controller on it, pretty cool but on at least one computer the accel wasn't happy (tekmagic 060 in an A2000 I had) so I had to swap it out for the ariadne - it's supposed to be faster than the ariadne, too.

- ariadne had the least amount of hassles but you'd have to find a used one around, and it's not supposed to be as fast as the x-surf, although I never benchmarked any of them.

If you can find one, the DKB Wildfire 060 is a great card that has BOTH the accel and the ethernet built into it, BUT, it's only for A2000's not a3k/a4k computers, so there's a slight disadvantage there...

Holger Kruse, no matter what people may think of him now, had a good comparison of these cards on his site, not including the new x-surf 2 of course, since that's pretty much brand new....

http://www.nordicglobal.com/etherrec.html


good luck!

kevin orme
amiga university
www.amigau.com

[amigau]

Holger is/was a great Amiga developer, he gave us the Miami TCP stack, ported from BSD, I believe.  I wasn't making a comment on him either way, it's just that many are mad at him for leaving up the Nordic Global site and implying that you can still 'buy' Miami when that's not been the case for many years now (at least 3+).  If you were on the Miami mailing list, you'd have seen how many people tried to buy in the past and were completely ignored, some were charged, some not...

it was too bad, because the software was GREAT!

kevin orme
amiga university
www.amigau.com