X-Surf or Ariadne II?

[Matt_H]

Just to clarify: You can not use the Video Toaster on the Mediator 4000Di (because there is no video slot!).

Whoops. I thought there was. Must have been another Mediator model/configuration I was thinking of.

Thanks for catching that.

[DaBest]

There's a PIN 1
No wonder my card isn"t working :crazy:  :lol:  :roll:

[adolescent]

@Corrie

No the X-Surf2 is 10Mb/s just like the Ariadne.  Technically, you could say that 10Mb/s at full duplex is 20Mb/s but nobody (honest) does that.

[alexh]

If you have a Cyberstorm MKIII or PPC and you are lucky enough to find a GRex 4000D. They are the only PCI interfaces for 4000D's with a video slot.

I've never seen one

Personally I feel that the speeds that Amiga Ethernet cards can do are pretty crappy whatever version you get.

An 8-wire parallel cable and PC2Amiga is the cheapest solution.

[orange]

not if he wants TCPIP, so the cheapest would be magplip with parallel, it works beautifully. A1200 with PCMCIA can be used with it as a router nicely.. (supposedly a Linux machine, too)

[Gojirax]

I owned an AriadneII at one time on my last A4000, the performance seemed fine (And better by far than a direct PC link), I'm just wondering what's faster these days.

[x56h34]

I haven't done any benchmark testing to confirm this, but I remember hearing that the original Ariadne is the best/fastest Zorro network card ever made for Amiga. Ariadne 2 is supposed to be a crippled/cut down/slower version compared to the original.

[Flashlab]

I thought that the Ariadne 2 was slightly faster.

However I own the original Ariadne and it's a good card.

[x56h34]

Flashlab wrote:
I thought that the Ariadne 2 was slightly faster.

Not according to this. :-)

[Flashlab]

Cool! Then I have the right card... :-P

Speed isn't really that important to me. I think all 10Mbit network cards are fast enough for my Amiga. The Ariadne is hassle free and that's waht really counts in my book!