Best Ethernet card: Ariadne II or X-Surf?
Scott Coley
I'm trying to decide which is the better Ethernet card to buy for my
Amiga, the Ariadne II or the X-Surf. I'm aware that the Ariadne II
is hard to find. I would be using the Ethernet card in a A3000 with
Miami Deluxe, running AmigaDos 3.1 with a CyberStorm MK 2 060 board
and 64 megs of ram. I have a Rev 11 Buster.
Criz
says...
wasn愒 on stock for at least 2 month I just took the x-surf because as it
came out they became available to buy and still is. Don愒 waste your time
and support the right developers.
I惴 not sure about the speed, but for my use it愀 fast enough.
(btw: blizzard2060/50, Os3.1, Miami)
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Swiftshadow
> says...
> > I'm trying to decide which is the better Ethernet card to buy for my
> > Amiga, the Ariadne II or the X-Surf. I'm aware that the Ariadne II
> > is hard to find. I would be using the Ethernet card in a A3000 with
> > Miami Deluxe, running AmigaDos 3.1 with a CyberStorm MK 2 060 board
> > and 64 megs of ram. I have a Rev 11 Buster.
> Well, all I can say I惴 very happy with my X-surf and as the Ariadne II
> wasn愒 on stock for at least 2 month I just took the x-surf because as it
> came out they became available to buy and still is. Don愒 waste your time
> and support the right developers.
Take a look at
http://www.nordicglobal.com/etherrec.html
Its a list of Holger Kruse's opinions on the best (and worst) Amiga
Ethernet cards. In summary, the X-Surf is highly recommended. Its
probably the best currently sold Ethernet card for the Amiga. Only the
A4066 is considered better. I believe you can't go wrong with it. That
and the bonus IDE ports on it (there is a free driver for them) and
you can't really go wrong.
Fare thee well,
Carlos A. Tirado
Marcel DeVoe
> Take a look at
> http://www.nordicglobal.com/etherrec.html
> Its a list of Holger Kruse's opinions on the best (and worst) Amiga
> Ethernet cards. In summary, the X-Surf is highly recommended. Its
> probably the best currently sold Ethernet card for the Amiga.
Considering it's the ONLY currently sold ethernet card for the Amiga. ;-)
> Only the
> A4066 is considered better. I believe you can't go wrong with it. That
> and the bonus IDE ports on it (there is a free driver for them) and
> you can't really go wrong.
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Swiftshadow skrev i meddelandet
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>> In article <3991e284$1...@news3.calweb.com>, sco...@web1.calweb.com
>> says...
>> > I'm trying to decide which is the better Ethernet card to buy for my
>> > Amiga, the Ariadne II or the X-Surf. I'm aware that the Ariadne II
>> > is hard to find. I would be using the Ethernet card in a A3000 with
>> > Miami Deluxe, running AmigaDos 3.1 with a CyberStorm MK 2 060 board
>> > and 64 megs of ram. I have a Rev 11 Buster.
>> Well, all I can say I惴 very happy with my X-surf and as the Ariadne II
>> wasn愒 on stock for at least 2 month I just took the x-surf because as it
>> came out they became available to buy and still is. Don愒 waste your time
>> and support the right developers.
>
>
>http://www.nordicglobal.com/etherrec.html
>
>Its a list of Holger Kruse's opinions on the best (and worst) Amiga
>Ethernet cards. In summary, the X-Surf is highly recommended. Its
>A4066 is considered better. I believe you can't go wrong with it. That
>and the bonus IDE ports on it (there is a free driver for them) and
>you can't really go wrong.
My experiance with X-Surf is that is fast when it's resiving data
~650kb/s, but when sending data it's only ~80kb/s in miami that is,
In genesis it's 500/450, there have been some rumors about some
special option in miami delux that will make it go 650kb both ways
but i don't know if it's true, berhaps someone else can confirm/denie this?
btw, i don't know if it's only x-surf or,, but it's -very- slow on 040 cpu's
:/
i got 600% speed increese when i switched to 060 :)
Neil Bothwick
> My experiance with X-Surf is that is fast when it's resiving data
> ~650kb/s, but when sending data it's only ~80kb/s in miami that is,
> In genesis it's 500/450,
It sounds like you're using the sana2 driver with Miami. In my
experience, Miami has always been slower than Genesis when using the
general sana2 drivers, but you get the speed back when you switch to
MNI.
If only there was an MNI driver for PCMCIA cards...
Neil
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Neil Bothwick skrev i meddelandet <773.263T1745...@wire.net.uk>...
>^fX said,
>
>> My experiance with X-Surf is that is fast when it's resiving data
>> ~650kb/s, but when sending data it's only ~80kb/s in miami that is,
>> In genesis it's 500/450,
>
>It sounds like you're using the sana2 driver with Miami. In my
>experience, Miami has always been slower than Genesis when using the
>general sana2 drivers, but you get the speed back when you switch to
>MNI.
No, i was using MNI. last time i tested sana2 was on 040, and it was
alot slower then MNI, and Genesis.. so i have never botherd to check
the sana2 speed in miami since i upgraded to 060..
John Millington
: I'm trying to decide which is the better Ethernet card to buy for my
: Amiga, the Ariadne II or the X-Surf. I'm aware that the Ariadne II
: is hard to find. I would be using the Ethernet card in a A3000 with
: Miami Deluxe, running AmigaDos 3.1 with a CyberStorm MK 2 060 board
: and 64 megs of ram. I have a Rev 11 Buster.
The best ethernet card is whatever you can get your hands on, so that you
can start using it instead of just dreaming about having one. ;-)
I can verify that X-Surf will work in a A3000 with Miami Deluxe, CyberStorm
Mk 2 060 and Rev 11 buster, because that's what I have too.
Yog-Sothoth Neblod Zin,
John Millington
Harry Sintonen
: If only there was an MNI driver for PCMCIA cards...
There already would be if Mr Kruse would have made the MNI api public.
I tried to contact him about this matter several months ago and got no
reply. Also some checking on miami ml show that mr Kruse think a) MNI
will stay private and behind NDA b) drivers written under NDA will be
property of nordicglobal c) MNI- PCMCIA driver isn't worth the trouble.
Oh well...
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" Considering it's the ONLY currently sold ethernet card for the Amiga. ;-)
Care to let us know where it's sold?
.....
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Will
> .....
>
> " Considering it's the ONLY currently sold ethernet card for the Amiga. ;-)
>
> Care to let us know where it's sold?
Cheers,
Will
Mike Leavitt
> " <Amig...@bigpond.nospam.com> wrote in message news:39a4...@naylor.cs.rmit.edu.au...
> "> .....
> ">
> "> " Considering it's the ONLY currently sold ethernet
> card for the Amiga. ;-)
> ">
> "> Care to let us know where it's sold?
>
>
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" <Amig...@bigpond.nospam.com> wrote in message news:39a4...@naylor.cs.rmit.edu.au...
"> .....
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"> " Considering it's the ONLY currently sold ethernet
card for the Amiga. ;-)
">
"> Care to let us know where it's sold?
" Eyetech in the UK, www.eyetech.co.uk and +44 1642 713185
thanks for that.
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Marcel DeVoe
> In comp.sys.amiga.networking Marcel DeVoe <mde...@shore.net> wrote:
> .....
> " Considering it's the ONLY currently sold ethernet card for the Amiga. ;-)
> Care to let us know where it's sold?
Just about any Amiga dealer near you should have it or be able to get it.
Check with whomever you buy your current Amiga stuff from.