Re: Ethernet card- alternatives

[ccw@ctt.bellcore.com (Christopher Wood)]

In article <9311091657.AA08661@fert2.fe.psu.edu>, jaj4922@FERT2.FE.PSU.EDU (Jason A. Jeffries) writes:

|> 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... 

Chris

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Chris Wood     Bellcore   ccw@ctt.bellcore.com