It depended on the quality of the IO-chipset on your board, or cards. I remember experimenting with that between 91 to 94, and got it up to 4Mbit/s via parallel

It depended on the quality of the IO-chipset on your board, or cards. I remember experimenting with that between 91 to 94, and got it up to 4Mbit/s via parallel with ECP/EPP-DMA something. I also used something looking exactly like this http://www.cablesonline.com/rsdbbreakbox.html http://www.cablesonline.com/rsdbbreakbox.html with gender changers. Imagine the red/green blinkenlights! But that was mostly just for fun, I already had Ethernet.