The best Zorro slot network card

[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. :-)

[1500]

No problems with X-Surf II although I have no experience of anything else.

[amigau]

Holger is/was a great Amiga developer, he gave us the Miami TCP stack, ported from BSD, I believe.  I wasn't making a comment on him either way, it's just that many are mad at him for leaving up the Nordic Global site and implying that you can still 'buy' Miami when that's not been the case for many years now (at least 3+).  If you were on the Miami mailing list, you'd have seen how many people tried to buy in the past and were completely ignored, some were charged, some not...

it was too bad, because the software was GREAT!

kevin orme
amiga university
www.amigau.com

[jj]

Hi on the same topic, but a question rather than an offering to this thread.

I have been offered a commodore A2065 for £50


A few questions


Is this a fair price.
How easy/hard is it to connect the miggy using any nic to an xp machine.  could I expect full networking as u get with windows networks.  i.e file and print sharing(can access volumes from both machines), internet sharing and gaming.


cheers for any advice

[tweek]

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?

Exactly!

-Tweek

[elendil]

I own an a2065 and have been very happy about it.

Some years ago I bought such a tranciever thingie for a six-pack, but never got it to work. Are there jumpers that need to be changed to make the a2065 communicate via the aui port rather than the bnc one, or is the tranciever just faulty?

Sincerely,

-Kenneth Straarup.

[Ilwrath]

Are there jumpers that need to be changed to make the a2065 communicate via the aui port rather than the bnc one

Yes, there are.

I think they're detailed in the listing at Amiga-hardware.com
A2065

[Doobrey]

shIva wrote:
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.

@shlva,
 Do you have a Cyberstorm accelerator in your A4000??
 There`s a known problem about it slowing/stopping the Hypercom cards down..
 If you want,I`ll find the fix and PM it...now which unlabelled CD-R did I put it on

[THEWASP]

How well does the Xsurf II's  IDE handle hard drives? How big of an IDE can one hook to it? I was hoping to had a BIG IDE to it and use for file storage for my BBS. I am days away from buying a network card and hopefully have my BBS back on-line via telnet.


THEWASP

[carls]

@THEWASP
The biggest drive I've tried with it is an old 3GB, but my guess is that as long your OS/filesystem can handle it, X-Surf can handle it too.

[spavatch]

I've read a lot of good things about A4066 card. Any comments on this one? Maybe someone has one for sale?

[jeffimix]

@THEWASP

The Buddha IDE controller can handle IDE drives larger than 4GB (I think unilimited size acutally) and it's made by the same people, so I wouldn't be surprised if the X-Surf works the same way.

[tormedhammaren]

@duesi:

It fried your A4000 mobo? How do you know that it was the X-surfs' fault ? You didn't put an old 2.5" HD on it? The X-surf don't give enough amps (300 mA+) to spin them around.

I've used a X-surf for two years now and I've never had any problems with it. It's a easy board to install, PPPoE drivers are included with it and it features IDE ports to. I think the X-surf 2 is designed quite similar to the X-surf with the exception of no BNC.

What do X-surf users think of the speed of their cards?

[Ilwrath]

It fried your A4000 mobo? How do you know that it was the X-surfs' fault ? You didn't put an old 2.5" HD on it? The X-surf don't give enough amps (300 mA+) to spin them around.

I believe him.  When my X-surf died, it crashed my A4000 VERY hard.  Yellow-screen hardware error style.  Audible popping in the sound output on the yellow screen, and several other hints that something went HORRIBLY wrong in my system.  My first thought was that the motherboard was toast.  Turns out that the only thing wrong was that the cheapo ISA card grafted to the X-surf had fried.  I got lucky.

By the way, I was only using the network card part of it, anyhow.   I don't have any IDE devices on the 4000.  I run SCSI drives from the CyberStorm 060 SCSI option.

What do X-surf users think of the speed of their cards?

Mine was garbage.  I never got it past about 900Kbit/sec.  (110KByte/sec.), compared to about 8000Kbit/sec (1.0MByte/sec) from my old A2065 in the same computer.
(A4000 w/ mk2 CyberStorm 060 @50mhz)  

Maybe I just had a bad X-Surf card to start with....  I ordered mine fairly early in the production run, and I have heard quality improved later on.  But it left a very bad taste in my mouth, and I wouldn't trust another one in one of my machines.

[Cass]

What do X-surf users think of the speed of their cards?

My answer: :-)

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.

These are my results. The model is 2 years old. I'm wondering if this max transfer rate barrier can be broken, or is it a hardware limit?
________
Cumshot Braces

[Effy]

I definitely have had transfers over 150 kb/s depending on which site I was on, never had any complaints of any kind. CDroms work just fine on the IDE connector. Didn´t try the other expansion ports though. Anyway, I got one for sale on Ebay if anyone is interested !! Check out this thread  :-)