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From: cactus@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu (Todd Masco)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: 19200bps
Keywords: 19200 bps
Message-ID: <12927@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 6 May 91 15:39:17 GMT
References: <1991May5.185645.12902@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1991May5.201708.452@cec1.wustl.edu> <1492@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
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In article <1492@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann) writes: 
> I believe that a normal phone line is physically incapable of
> carrying more than a few thousand baud at best, due to bandwidth
> limitations.

False,  unless "more than a few" is over 19.2.  

At Carnegie Mellon, we have an experimental service called MCN
 ("Metropolitan Campus Network") that gives us a indirect DOV ("Data Over
 Voice") connection to campus.  This connection, at 19.2 KBaud, is
 running over two of the four wires in the line going out of our house.
 The other two, of course, make our voice line.  It's all controlled
 through a computer owned by TPC ("The Phone Company").

(We currently run SLIP between a Sun 3 and a VAX running Multinet on
 campus.  It works quite well, putting our house thin ethernet (used
 to be thick -- long story) on the Internet.  

Which brings me to *my* question:

What's the cheapest *reasonable* Ethernet hardware/software
 combination available for the Amiga?  I'll be "Powering Up" to an
 A3000 in the very near future, and would really like to put it on our
 net.  However, I don't quite feel like shelling out $500 for it.

From what I know about KA9Q, I'm hesitant to go with it.  On the other
 hand, if using it and an under $200 Ethernet card (am I dreaming?) is
 the alternative to the Commodoe $500 deal...

[Sheesh.  With a UNIX Amiga, I'd expect Ethernet to come way down.
 Hasn't from what I've seen...]


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