68K/early PPC with onboard AAUI 100mbps ethernet?

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

I don't bother with benchmarking. Early machines run period specific software as fast or faster than later machines running their period specific software. Featuritis and bad code outpace Moore's law, 'nuf said.

Sure, but, however, comma: This is a scenario where using a benchmark can help set expectations on the performance of a specific subsystem.

Indeed, you'll get no argument from me for this or any of a multitude of other applications. I was only making the point that I can't be of much help to @jeremywork other than pointing out the MB/Mb distinction/confusion that's been rampant since the early days. I had the honcho Mac consultant/president of NYMUG tell me that Ethernet transfers were faster than SCSI transfers "in his experience" even after I pointed out that distinction. :

 

[jeremywork]

Indeed, you'll get no argument from me for this or any of a multitude of other applications. I was only making the point that I can't be of much help to @jeremywork other than pointing out the MB/Mb distinction/confusion that's been rampant since the early days. I had the honcho Mac consultant/president of NYMUG tell me that Ethernet transfers were faster than SCSI transfers "in his experience" even after I pointed out that distinction. :

Funny, I was on a call several months ago with a "senior" technician at way-too-prominent-a-company, who (after asking me to read out the local IP on my polycom IP phone) told me its web interface must be disabled because he couldn't connect to it. 

I explained I was already logged in to it from my laptop, and he seemed confused. Asked me to verify to IP again, and then I asked him how he thought he could communicate with devices inside our corporate network. 

He paused for a second and said "Well, normally you put the IP address in the browser and it comes up, but if it doesn't then we have you factory reset it."

Great.

 

[trag]

Re:  NetDoubler

Interesting, hopefully I can find another machine that it'll run with. I probably have some Asante PCI cards around... If it does rely on compression, I suspect only PPCs would theoretically be able to keep up in a way that would net a meaningfully faster transfer. 

Well, keep in mind that's a really old memory and I only read about NetDoubler, didn't use it.   So do not be surprised if I'm wrong. 

I would hope there'd be a ReadMe file or something in the user instructions that would tell you.