Which Nubus Ethernet card - Farallon PN590A-TP or DaynaPort E/11-T?

[TimHD]

Have a Mac IIfx and 2 Nubus Ethernet cards to choose from to put in it:

- Farallon PN590a-TP V1.3 NuBus Ethernet card and 

- DaynaPort E/11-T Rev A NuBus Ethernet card

The latter looks smaller, more compact (fewer chips), and has a RJ45 10baseT adapter only. The Farallon one has AAUI and 10BaseT connectors and is larger, with more chips etc.

Any real difference between these for networking/compatability. 

Have largely used Asante and Farallon (or Apple) cards, not DaynaPorts ones. Any difference?

 

[techknight]

I dont think it matters, as I believe the later versions of the Apple Ethernet extension supports all those cards. 

The biggest difference I think would be throughput, how close can you push to the 10MBPs between the cards? But again I dont think thats gonna matter either because the storage bus is slow. 

 

[Paralel]

I'm partial to Farallon, but that's strictly personal preference.

 

[olePigeon]

I've found that Dayna cards will sometimes only work with their drivers installed, but Farallon will work with the default Apple NB driver.  My vote would be for the Farallon.

 

[TimHD]

Seems DaynaPort E/II works best under 7.5.5/7.5.3 OT1.3 and not the 7.1 / 7.1.2 I have been trying. Looks like Farrallon for the 7.1 system and DaynaPort for the 7.5.5 one.

 

[Paralel]

You can use OT 1.3 on 7.1.2 68k. I actually run OT1.3.1 on 7.1.2 68k no problem.

 

[macclassic]

I've just got a Farallon card but don't know what the three position switch does? 

 

[Compgeke]

It'll depend on which card. Typically it's a switch to select whether it's AUI, thin net or thick net

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[olePigeon]

Old thread, but I'd thought I'd mention that Apple's NuBUS ethernet card is easily the best card of them all.  The A/ROSE makes a VERY big different on slower machines.  Even on my 040 accelerated IIci, my network speeds were noticeably faster.

 

[Iesca]

Sorry to necro, but I don't suppose anyone has the manual for the Farallon PN590a-TP by chance? Just picked one up for my Mac II.

 

[mg.man]

I don't suppose anyone has the manual for the Farallon PN590a-TP

Would this help?
- https://androda.work/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/FarallonEtherMacManual.pdf

 

[Iesca]

Amazing! Thank you!