Broadband -Overkill?

[AmiDelf]

Oki... lets clear up something here...

Well..

1. There is so many possibilities for an Amiga to get on-line these days. PCMCIA (Amiga 600 and Amiga 1200), USB network card, PCI nettworks cards and also Zorro network cards.

2. The speed of a broadband today is ennough, even if you just have 10mbit, but then again if youre in a network or on a demoparty with thousends of PC lamerz , 10mbit can hold, but 100mbit is then recommended (only Mediator users can reach this speeds at the moment, if I am wrong.. Shout please..!!!)

3. Miami and Genesis is two tcp/ip stacks for Amiga. Miami is the most advanced one, but also a tcp/ip stack that can bug at times. Genesis is another one. Its the original AmiTCP in GUI form. It dosent have any DHCP function, but else, its a damn stable tcp/ip stack. I never got problems with it at all.

4. I use NextGenTel here in Norway, the speed is 703 down and 384 up. My Amiga keeps the speeds, no losses. It gives even out better performances than my PC in some areas. Especially downloading time.

I hope that this clears some questions..


Regards,
Michal Bergseth, editor of Amitopia
url: www.amitopia.tk (the Scandinavian Amiga mag)

[AmiDelf]

Viking!...

There is a lot of network cards actually for Zorro. Not only X-surf. But thats the newest.

There is also:
Ariadne
Ariadne_II
X-Surf
Norway expansion module for HighwayUSB
Hydra/AmigaNet

The downside here, is that there is no 100mbit network cards for Zorro at all. Only 10mbit.

If thats not ennough help , here is a nice list of Zorro, PCMCIA and other based Ethernet card sollutions for Amiga:

http://www.amiga-hardware.com/nic.html


Regards,
Michal Bergseth, editor of Amitopia
url: www.amitopia.tk

[AmiDelf]

Re: Broadband -Overkill?

by Viking on 2003/2/25 1:11:32
And my hardware will not care which one of all those solutions I choose?
I'll go for high-end, but more important is how it works.

So, zorro-3 ethernet cards does not exist, I see.
....

Nope, there arent. Bad as it is .

And for you question about whats steals, is the network cards in Zorro. They need lots of CPU power, much more than PCI for some reason I dont really know.

A simple thing is Ariadne_II for Zorro. On my 68040 I got maximum 300000cps. On my 68060 I really gain all the 10mbit speed. The choice is yours.


Regards,
Michal Bergseth, editor of Amitopia
url: www.amitopia.tk