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Give me your advice about the best NIC for my A2000
« on: December 27, 2010, 05:45:31 PM »
Hi my friends.

I am in the process in rebuilding my mighty A2000 for good. It will be eating electricity again in a few days now and will be full of rare and expensive boards (pictures to come) :D

I need advice about the best choice for a network card.
I have here:
- an HydraNet rev 1.1 zorro board
- an untested ARIADNE 1 which also comes with a parallel port
- a Deneb board that could be hooked to an USB-RJ45 adapter but obviously in Zorro 2 mode only (it would at least free a zorro slot for a VLab board)

Which solution would perform the faster and the better (i am thinking of a multiboot system with 3.1 and 2.04)?

Thanks for your help on that matter.
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Re: Give me your advice about the best NIC for my A2000
« Reply #1 on: December 27, 2010, 07:51:51 PM »
Thanks for those advices. :)
As save2600 says the Deneb in zII mode is as fast as a real ethernet card, i will give it a try then.
About the transceiver, indeed i have a RJ45-AUI transceiver with the hydranet as it was the board i used some years ago.
I have not tested yet the Ariadne that i got last year but i though a parallel port could come handy for some ZIP drive or anything that wouldn't work with an amiga parallel port.
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