From: "Powermac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [q] 10/100 Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 17:41:26 -0400
----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Quadlist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 2:58 PM Subject: Re: [q] 10/100
Yes, the Asante 10/100 cards are going cheap on eBay. My only gripe is 10/100 cards in any Nubus Mac either 68k or PPC still get jack for network through-put. Any pci Mac including a even a 7200/75 with its onboard 10BaseT will smoke a Nubus Mac with a 10/100 card. At least thats always been my experience.
Chris Wood
Have you done any real benchmarks?
Nubus slots up to the 840av are 32bit 10Mhz for 40MB/sec bandwidth, Nubus 2 on the 840av and the PPC nubus machines should be double that. So from those numbers the bus should not be a bottleneck (PCI bus is limited to 132Mb/sec). If your using old 200MB scsi hardware I could see the HD being a bottleneck.
Actually, the 840AV is still 10 MHz for 40 MB/s theoretical maximum throughput. The 840AV only supports 20 MHz for card-to-card communications where both cards support 20 MHz and where someone actually wrote software support for card-to-card communications.
I don't think anyone ever built any hardware that took advantage of that capability.
Communications from card to 840AV and from 840AV to card are still 10 MHz. This is documented in the Hardware Developer Notes for the 840AV from Apple, "Centris_660AV_Quadra_840AV.pdf".
BTW, are the 10/100 cards still going cheap on Ebay? Asante was clearing them out on Ebay for a short time, but they are out of them now. Is someone else selling them?
Jeff Walther
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