Are you talking about the ethernet ports? 1 looks like a large telephone jack and the other is sort of rectangular with a double row of curved contacts. The telephone jack shaped one is a 10baseT ethernet port that uses the cat5 RJ45 cable to tie to a network while the other is called an AAUI port that is connected to a network via an adapter that can tie to either an RJ45 or appletalk cable depending on the connector. Only 1 port is usable at a time and the telephone jack shaped RJ45 is faster.
There is no "AppleTalk Cable". AAUI can be used with a variety of transceivers for different media, including: 10BaseT, 10Base2 (ThinNet), 10Base5 (ThickNet), AUI and fibre (I think). They all run at 10MBps so none are faster or slower.
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