Re: Ethernet card- alternatives

[jaj4922@fert2.fe.psu.edu (Jason A. Jeffries)]

> |> Yeah, but for lack of an Ethernet card, what is there? Sure, there's that
> |> AppleTalk <> Ethernet thing, but AppleTalk is SLOW. I can't imagine FTPing
> |> through AppleTalk which runs at, what, 56.7k, when Ethernet runs at 4-10m/s?
> 
> AppleTalk runs at 233K Bits/Sec; Ethernet has a nominal speed of 10M
> Bits/Sec, with actual throughput more like 1 - 3 Megabits/sec.  So
> LocalTalk and similar hardware (PhoneNet, etc.) is 4 to 12 times
> slower.  AppleTalk is the name of the entire protocol stack, and can
> (in theory) run on ATM at hundreds of Megabits to Gigabits per
> second... 

That's strange; if our ports can really go 233k, I wonder why we can't use
them as serial ports that fast...