The best Zorro slot network card

[duesi]

I used to have a X-Surf1 first. The damn thing fried my A4000 Mobo one day... so it was bad luck or the X-Surf1 is crap !?
I have an X-surf2 now.. this one is faster than the X-Surf1 and works nice

[Effy]

Strange that there seem to be problems with the Xsurf. Never had any problems myself,and I have had 2 cards like that ... the IDE connector was very cool to add another CDrom but not for harddrive ...

[odin]

I've used a Ariadne2 on a Micronik Z2 busboard on an A1200 motherboard for a few years now. Works flawless.

[HotRod]

If you want to use a second-hand card you could buy the IOBlixZII with the Ethernet-module. That's what I'm using and it's a great card. But if you don't need more/better parallel or serial ports it's not for you :-) .

[SilvrDrgn]

I have two Ariadne-II cards.  Used to have them both installed in my A4000T when I was using that as a gateway machine for all the other computers on my network.  Since have bought a LinkSys switch to put in between my cable modem and my computers.  No longer needed both cards in that case, so I removed one of them and am just keeping it for a spare.  The other that is still in my A4000T is quite a few years old and still working perfectly with Miami Deluxe.

[x56h34]

I've got an X-Surf II card and it has been working great for about 6 months now. Very easy to install. Thumbs up.

[Cass]

I have an X-Surf here. I'm pretty satisfied with the card, I have plenty of alternatives for expansion (IDEs, clockports etc.), plus 2 connection plugs (coaxial or RJ45, you chose).

What bothers me is the transfer rate: The theoretical 1.5 Mbyte/sec is reduced to 130-150kb/sec, via SAMBA. Some tests have given a 500kb/sec via ftp, but what counts is the daily use with the PC shared volumes.

For an internet connection, is more than you need :-)

The "Eth" modules for Algor worth considering though... (you spare a Zorro slot!), plus you get the USB ports (Algor will be the next expansion for my A4000 :-D )
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Airsoft

[amigau]

well, i've had a hydra, x-surf and a couple ariadne cards

- the hydra only has a coax port, so for rj45 that's out plus it's an older and slower card.

- the x-surf worked fine and has an additional IDE controller on it, pretty cool but on at least one computer the accel wasn't happy (tekmagic 060 in an A2000 I had) so I had to swap it out for the ariadne - it's supposed to be faster than the ariadne, too.

- ariadne had the least amount of hassles but you'd have to find a used one around, and it's not supposed to be as fast as the x-surf, although I never benchmarked any of them.

If you can find one, the DKB Wildfire 060 is a great card that has BOTH the accel and the ethernet built into it, BUT, it's only for A2000's not a3k/a4k computers, so there's a slight disadvantage there...

Holger Kruse, no matter what people may think of him now, had a good comparison of these cards on his site, not including the new x-surf 2 of course, since that's pretty much brand new....

http://www.nordicglobal.com/etherrec.html


good luck!

kevin orme
amiga university
www.amigau.com

[SHADES]

@amigau

>>"Holger Kruse, no matter what people may think of him now, "

Why do you say that about Holger?
Is he considered to be a reall ahole now or something?
I thought he developed some great apps for the Mig.

Oh if anyone knows where I can pick up a cheap A4000 network card, pm me please!!

[aardvark]

Probably yes. But it must be included with the card - it's not easy to find one nowadays...

Hmmm, I've got 5 of those transceivers just for when I get more cards with AUI ports. :-D

[Framiga]

Hi all,

XSurf2 . . .one of my best buy :-)

Now in special offer:

From Individual Computers

http://www.jschoenfeld.de/news/news91_e.htm

Special price for the X-Surf 2

The advent season has already begun at our trade partners, now we want to announce it officially again: Participating resellers have the X-Surf 2 networking card for 69,90 EUR. This price is also valid for direct orders. You're saving 20,- EUR compared to the recommended retail price, but only until december 31st!

Happy X-mas!

[shIva]

my a4000  works with one XSurf (1) and a HydraCOM.
Those work really fine. the only problem is that the HydraCOM gets slow at some point, and has to be resetted.

[carls]

I have an X-Surf II and I recommend it strongly. The two extra IDE interfaces are also very nice.

[spavatch]

Aardvark, you lucky bastard ;-). If you have so many of these then send me one... as a Christmas gift :lol:.
OK, that gave me an idea which one should I choose. As all mentioned NICs have equal prices it looks like the X-Surf II is the one I'd like to have. But there's a question. What does it look like? Is it an ISA card connected to a Zorro slot via a special converter, just like first generation X-Surfs?

[utri007]

[Matt_H]

Smack wrote:

Is that interference still there with the current versions of DelfMPEG (v1.0) and delfinampeg.device (v1.6)?

I'm asking that because these last updates include fixes for a problem like this: MP3 playback had interfered with network activity, especially serial I/O with a modem - most of the time the network connection became extremely slow and unreliable when Delfina MPEG decoding was active.  That should be fixed now.

You know, I think I'm still using the previous version. I'll check this out later today. Thanks. :-)