4 ms·

beat the 3c509, that's for sure.

• h2odragon 5y ago
  Bah. a pair of 3c509's would do a link of 750m or so on coax. And when i needed that they were available cheap used and in bulk, which was good. Every lightning storm would fry one end of the link if not both.
  • stevekemp 5y ago
    I remember paying for a couple of NE2k cards in the mid 90s, as the house I was living in used 10baseT networking for our student computers. I paid something like £15 to buy each card, and they were found in a cardboard box of "misc. networking cards". Random piles of undocumented, unlabelled cards. Most were NE2K, though there were some 3Com cards - I remember I bought one by mistake, couldn't get it working properly under Linux at the time and took it back to swap it over. That was around the time winmodems were a thing, and my personal PC had one. My memory is that of the three/four PCs in the house only one of them had a modem that worked under Linux and so we'd use that as the common "internet" machine, setting up routing so we could get internet access via that one for 30-60 minutes a day or so.