Re: Apple IIe TCP-IP w/ LANceGS Card

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Perry wrote:

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>Another reason to have an Ethernet card in an Apple II would be to hook it
>up to your local area network (whether it be PC's, Mac's, UNIX boxen,
>etc.) for presumably easier file transfer/information sharing). It would
>be much faster than connection to the LAN via the LocalTalk port(s) built
>into the IIgs....and the IIe doesn't have any networking options built
>into it at all.

I hear this assumption a lot, and am wondering what data rates
are actually achievable with a LanceGS and a //e--particularly
an unaccellerated //e.

Unless the card uses DMA on a //e, it would be suprising if it
could sustain bandwidths better than 20-25 kilobytes per second,
or, in bits per second 160-200 kbps.

If this is so, then the card would not be that much better than
a workstation card in terms of throughput.

I realize that many people want this just for connectivity, not
performance, but I can't help wondering what the actual network
performance might be, even with protocol factored out.

-michael

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