Re: Apple IIe TCP-IP w/ LANceGS Card

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Kim Howe" <khowe@omninet.net.au> wrote in message
191220030752365299%khowe@omninet.net.au">news:191220030752365299%khowe@omninet.net.au...
: In article <oNKdnVyUJcAot3yi4p2dnA@comcast.com>, Bill Garber
: <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote:
:
: > Do you think they are worth having?
: > I mean can you download and stuff?
: >
: I have a LANceGS in my main GS. It is connected to the router
that also
: serves my network of Macs, and from there to an ADSL connection
to the
: net. It works very well indeed. On most days, I use Spectrum
and SOAR
: to read the boards on Syndicomm, and then, if I have time, use
my own
: TelnetNDA to drop into the chat rooms there. If there is
something that
: I want to download, I download it directly to the GS using the
SAFE ftp
: scripts for Spectrum. SAFE has a rather slow interface, but
transfers
: data at quite an acceptable rate. If my health continues to be
ok, I
: should be able to finish my own ftp client in the near future
(ftpNDA).
:
: I also tend to use SAFE and the LANceGS if I want to transfer
anything
: to or from my Macs. I haven't done any serious tests, but my
guess is
: that transfers achieve about two megabits per second (obivously
not the
: 10 megabits that is theoretically possible, but still way
better than
: any other alternative for the Apple II, and plenty fast enough
for the
: size of things you want to transfer to and from an Apple II).
:
: It took me a lot to get the cash together to buy a LANceGS, but
it's
: one of the best things I've put in my GS.
:
: Hope this helps.

That helps quite a bit, and considering the size
of most IIgs archive files, 2 Mb is probably much
faster per archive than the average archive on the
PC at 10 mb. Let's check that. 500K at 2 Mb, as
opposed to 5 MB at 10 Mb. Yep, I'd say that faster.
Pulled some numbers out of my A**, oops, but I think
that pretty much says it. ;-)

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