Subject: Re: Network card
To: NetBSD Amiga <port-amiga@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Matthias Scheler <tron@lyssa.owl.de>
List: port-amiga
Date: 05/29/1996 11:42:50
Hi Martin,
you wrote in <19960529.738CA50.9478@lcsgate.rydnet.lysator.liu.se>:
> Anyway, I can probably get one of those Commodore cards, A2065 or
> whatever the name is quite cheap . Does this card work well in an
> A4000/040?
Yes.
> Is it any good otherwise?
It works.
> My current ISA card only transfers about
> 200-250 KB/s, even though the network is 10 Mb.
That's more likely a problem of the CPU speed not of the Ethernet card.
One can double network speed by replacing the A3640 with e.g. a Warp-Engine.
--
Matthias Scheler
tron@lyssa.owl.de