Question for Asante ethernet card

[michelbites]

What FPU will work with the card and does it make a difference?

 

[beachycove]

I’m assuming this is an LC PDS card.

A 68882 is the co-processor in question. It will make little difference in a 68030-based Mac, except in certain specialized programs for things like 3D design or in similarly heavy mathematical programs like spreadsheets. The most dramatic differences will be some of the benchmark scores, but real world use is rather rare. It will not work at all in a 68040-based Mac.

 

[michelbites]

The reason I wanted it was because I was thinking it would help increase the network speed because for some reason my network speed only caps out at maybe a megabyte.

 

[mdeverhart]

These old Ethernet cards are almost exclusively 10 Mbps (megabits per second), which is 1.25 MegaBytes per second (MB/s) - so yes, capping out around 1 megabyte is about right, once overhead is taken into account.

Edit: Plus the network stack and drivers on classic Mac OS are notoriously slow, which doesn’t help.

 

[Paralel]

I'd consider anything close to 1 MB/s to be excellent. On my Blackbird running 7.1.2 with the MacOS 8.0 "Apple Built-In Ethernet" extension, with OT 1.3.1 & a Farallon AAUI 10BaseT transceiver, I can only get 2 Mb/s at the absolute most.

 

[rieSha.]

I'd consider anything close to 1 MB/s to be excellent. On my Blackbird running 7.1.2 with the MacOS 8.0 "Apple Built-In Ethernet" extension, with OT 1.3.1 & a Farallon AAUI 10BaseT transceiver, I can only get 2 Mb/s at the absolute most.

Do you mean 2 Megabytes/s? On a 10 MBit/s connection, that’s not possible. Or do you mean 2 MBit/s a.k.a. ~200 KBytes/s? That’s what I get on 68k Macs typically. I never exceeded 400 KBytes/s.

 

[croissantking]

Do you mean 2 Megabytes/s? On a 10 MBit/s connection, that’s not possible. Or do you mean 2 MBit/s a.k.a. ~200 KBytes/s? That’s what I get on 68k Macs typically. I never exceeded 400 KBytes/s.

He must mean 2MBit/s, I guess that’s why he used a lowercase ‘b’ in Mb.

 

[Paralel]

He must mean 2MBit/s, I guess that’s why he used a lowercase ‘b’ in Mb.

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