Can I buy any given PCMCIA Ethernet card for my A1200?

[ncafferkey]

I've achieved  551 kbytes/s download on a 40MHz 030 with Genesis and ncftp.

Unfortunately, there aren't any compatible 100Mbps 3Com cards, so the limit is probably around 10 Mbytes/s, no matter how fast the CPU.

[ncafferkey]

chris wrote:

ncafferkey wrote:
so the limit is probably around 10 Mbytes/s

10 Mbits/s - which is 1.25 Mbytes/s

Chris

Yeah, sorry. I meant to say 1 Mbytes/s (shaving off the 0.25 to allow for the overhead of TCP etc.).

[ncafferkey]

GPT wrote:
ncafferkey was that on a PCMCIA card?

Yes, a 3Com PCMCIA card.

I've got a 060/50 and the best I've got from my connection was 483.6 kB/s and that was when I was connected to a LAN.

The limit for PCMCIA card for A1200 is around 5mb(500-600kB/s raw speed), A1200 only has a 16bits cardbuss and thats the hold back.

I don't think just being 16-bit would hold it back that much, otherwise there probably wouldn't be any 10/100 PCMCIA cards.

[ncafferkey]

GPT wrote:

Don't buy typ2 there no reason for you to by that because A1200/A600 can only use type 1 and don't buy faster than 10mb/s your cardbuss won't give more than 500-600 kB/s in the best case.

The A1200/A600 can use Type II, but not Type III. This just refers to the height.