Anybody in Canada have an Amiga connected to high-speed internet (DSL)?

[Piru]

That's kind of fubared. At least here (in finland) you can use your own DSL boxen (you need to figure things out yourself then), or you can buy or rent one provided by the ISP (you get support for that).

Also, most of these boxes are fully independent of the system(s) connecting to them, and use ethernet and DHCP, and as such allow connecting Windoze, Mac, Linux, Amiga or whatever systems. Also, most of them allow use of NAT, and then you can use fixed IP addresses within 10 or 192.168 ranges (helps with AmiTCP and Miami's buggy DHCP).

Surely Canada has at least some ISPs that provide similar solutions?

Posting from 8/1 mbit ADSL here ;-)

[Piru]

@alenppc

The reason why the 8139 is unlikely to go significantly faster lies in the horrible design of the chip.

I don't know where you're getting that. RTL 8139 does better than that, easily.

Its DMA capabilities are useless, the CPU has to do all the work.

This is not true. 8139 does DMA just fine. CPU is not needed to do all the work.

While 060@50 might not be enough to prepare/process the data involved, the problem isn't 8139 itself, since it does DMA just fine.

Some modern cards (typically gigabit or faster) have features that offload some work to the card itself. However, since amiga network stacks have no support for these features, 8139 lacking these features makes no difference at all.