Re: Ethernet card- alternatives

[jaj4922@FERT2.FE.PSU.EDU (Jason A. Jeffries)]

> I called Asante about this many moons ago.  They told me that they don't give
> out the specs for these devices.  If you'd like to see it supported, by all
> means, give them a call and ask them to reconsider...  I for one am not too
> thrilled about the SCSI-enet converters, since a IIgs owner probably isn't
> going to want to shell out $250 or more for one (on top of the price of a SCSI
> card).

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?
And I'll bet if you were going to depend on the now-dead Apple Ethernet
card, it would have cost more than the SCSI converter anyway... Ethernet is
the sanest choice.