On Sun, 7 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> First, you are mistaken that that is the only Ethernet solution for the
> 2300. There is a comm slot card for the Duo Dock I and that card is
> already installed on the Docks II & Plus. There is also at least one Mini
> Dock with Ethernet built-in and an Ethernet Micro-dock made by Newer
> Technologies.
>
> However, the quick answer re: EN/SC is that software directs Ethernet
> instructions from your computer via the SCSI bus. A small converter
> converts these SCSI instructions into standard Ethernet packets and sends
> them on via your regular Ethernet. Pretty good in a 10BT environment,
> however, in a 100BT the SCSI interface will cause a bottleneck, rather you
> won't be able to take advantage of it. Hopefully someone will further
> enlighten us with a more technical explanation than I can afford.
First off I was under the impression that the modem card in the Duo Dock
only had lines coming from the modem card in the Dock to the modem card in
the Duo itself. So the modem card in the dock really depends on the
existance of a modem card in the Duo.
I know I read a feature length article in a Macworld or a MacUser
that profiled Nubus 100 Base-T ethernet cards in first generation
PowerMacs against 100 Base-T PCI cards in first generation PCI PowerMacs.
I think the article may have been in a 1996 issue of a MacWorld, but I an
not sure. Of course this only helps if you have a Duo Dock. Since it was
so long ago I would have no idea how to purchase a Nubus 100 Base-T card
now.
Ryan
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