Actually I never tried because: 1) Many people are so adamant that Classic networking was better than OT. 2) the only free version (from Apple) is 1.1.1 or 1.1.2 and these say:
<http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/English-North_American/Macintosh/Networking-Communications/Open_Transport/>
I don't have OT 1.1 :-(
Hi John, see above
So does it work to go from NO open transport to 1.1.2?
No, 1.1.2 updates the bugs in 1.1.1 ;)
As you are on cable I guess you are behind a router of sorts, there's a fair chance it accepts a static address. If so mactpc is lightweight, less likely to corrupt and a pita to setup. I'm very happy with it on all of the 68k macs on this little lan. OT is needed if dhcp is the only option. Its also better supported and basicly easier, more mac like to use.
OT 1.x.x has flaws that aren't corrected until OS8.5+ and OT 2.X but im not able to explain it properly. I'm trying to say you may have trouble connecting OT 1.1.2 to your cable modem directly to some dhcp servers, depending on your ISP.
I my case I could get around this with a static address which brings us back to mactpc. ;)
cheers
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