1200 networking speed report.

[mechy]

Well, miami may be slower than other stacks, but not that slow. I should have something about 300kb/s. i'm nowhere near that. With Genesis its the same. btw, i need miami for routing my a4000 into the internet, which is connected via magplip cable to my a1200.

Miami is known to be much slower than roadshow. It is the slowest tcp/ip stack of all of them. Seeing how you are getting slower speeds with other stacks also, it sounds like you have a bottleneck somewhere else.

Check out some testing on hdzone here:

http://www.hd-zone.com/2011/07/ethernet-adapter-speeds-amigaos-3-9-and-amigaos-4-1-classic/

[mechy]

Download speed is linked to CPU speed and data through-put.  Hence the Z3 X-Surf 100 + AmiTCP 4.0 gets the best numbers, but getting there on an A1200 would require a tower set up, and I'd just go with an A3000 or A4000.  Sneaker-net may be best for non-surfing situations (large file downloads).

Only there is no zorro3 for 1200 towers  well except that buggy one micronik? made
for the most part everyone with 1200 expansions would be limited to z2 mode of the x-surf 100.

[mechy]

Well, Miami isn't always slower in every case, and it's a different story if you have a card with an MNI driver vs a poorly written SANA-II driver (like the Ameristar A4066 - in that situation, Miami and Roadshow trade blows, and Miami is overall the better choice because of the superior driver).

I wish I could help, I had the same accelerator (Apollo 1260 @ 80MHz) and the network cards ran well. You can tweak the caching mode of the PCMCIA port with Thor's MuTools for slightly better performance, but I don't think this is your problem.

The A4066 may be the one exception since it was prob. one of the best old ethernet cards you could get speed wise and the only one i haven't owned. I have tested just about every other ethernet card out there with MNI drivers and with sanaII and  they come up slower in Miami than Roadshow. Roadshow actually triggered a bug in the x-surf drivers that got fixed if i recall.

So what speeds do you get on the A4066 and Miami?