Plipbox vs. conventional nic's

[curtis]

Okay, this may be a moot point, but how does the plipbox compare to a more "normal" network interface card?

I know the plipbox is, obviously, much easier to acquire, but how does the throughput speeds compare?

[curtis]

I would imagine it's limited to the speed of the parallel port, so slower than a Zorro or PCMCIA card. Chief advantage is that it can be attached to Amigas large and small, so it's an easy way to get a 500 or CDTV on the LAN. Better to have a slow network than no network

That's pretty much what I figured.  So all the talk of a plipbox being 10MB is good right up to where it enters the Amiga!