Help me decide what to buy next

[SamuraiCrow]

@Runequester

The only reason you'd want to go for SCSI is if you need full DMA and your accelerator card supports it.  Otherwise, stick with the IDE port.  The transfer speed on a CD-ROM is low enough that you shouldn't notice the difference.

[SamuraiCrow]

The 4-way buffered IDE connection will attach your existing hard drive and other IDE peripherals at once.

[SamuraiCrow]

Now, which of the three options should I get first? (CD ROM, Printer, Networking)

Networking would probably be handiest.  Trying to get stuff from the Aminet to a non-networked Amiga often proves to be a pain.

[SamuraiCrow]

For the wireless - my plan was to use ethernet and just get a cheapo wireless router that I could put into bridged mode - probably cheaper, easier and nicer in the long run.

Yeah.  $54 for this one would only be worth it to someone who doesn't know how to hook it up otherwise.

[SamuraiCrow]

PCMCIA ethernet cards (wired) seems to be in the 15-20 dollar range, and to that, would have to add in the cost of a bridge (don't have a spare router atm) or similar ?

I guess you're right.  I hadn't tallied the cost fully.  I just was wishing that AmigaKit still carried new PCMCIA Ethernet cards and didn't stop to think that the cost of a router would be higher.