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From: Terry Mundy <tmundy@inf.net>
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Subject: Re: Amiga <-> NT Filesharing Success!
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Joe Angell wrote:
>
> > > Does anyone know of a way to simulate ethernet on a null-modem cable?
> > > It would be considerably cheaper than ethernet, and I assume the high
> > > baud of the null modem should suffice. Any ideas anyone? Thnx.
> >
> > It would be considerably slower too! The Amiga serial port tops out at
> > about 32,150bps...ethernet has an overall network speed of about
> > 10,000,000bps!
>
> Uh... Dave, I thought the Amiga serial port topped out at 115K bps...
>
> But you're right compared to EtherNet, anything else crawls!
>
> -- Joe
The Amiga is capable of achieving 115K bps, but only when using
some sort of extender board such as GVP's I/O Extender. My 3000
tops out at 56K bps in the native serial slot. This made it
very unexceptable to send frames of video from the PC to the
Amiga. I now do the transfers with a Null Modem Cable at 115K
bps and use the GVP I/O Extender. I don't like the slow speed,
but at least I can go to bed and wake up with the transfer
complete.
BTW, I have a 3000Tower with absolutely NO room for anything
else. I would install an Ethernet card if I had the room. But
the Ethernets priority is 7th on the list. So it didn't make
it. Maybe, the electronics company I work for can design a
Y-Adaptor to split a single Zorro-III into 2 or 3 more slots!