Re: READ THIS if you know about ETHERNET

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From: Matthew A. Schnoor
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1996 00:00

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On 6 Apr 1996, Macky Stingray wrote:

>   Ethernet can be kind of considered a rich man's toy, I guess, but
> damn, it's nice...

Rich?  Hardly.  Cheap BNC cards run for $50 or less in all the catalogs I 
get.  Nothing for great performance (they ain't no Intel cards) but 
they're a full 10Mbps.  BNC cabling is pretty cheap too.

Last I checked, decent 28.8 modems were running $150.  Figure you can only 
use two of those per DukeMatch game (total $300), compared with about 
$60 for each of up to 8 users on a network DukeMatch...  it's obviously 
cheaper to go with the network.

Yeah... you can get your budget 28.8 modems for $100 and your El Cheapo 
14.4 modems for $40.  But they aren't anything for quality.  I made the 
mistake of buying a Prometheus 14.4 about a year ago... it sucked shit 
and kept dying on me.  I finally torched it.  Better to go with something 
that you know is good.  My Supra 28.8 PnP works wonderfully.

Enjoy,

[ Matthew A. Schnoor ]
[ sch...@cs.pdx.edu ]

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From: "Matthew A. Schnoor" <sch...@cs.pdx.edu>
Subject: Re: READ THIS if you know about ETHERNET
Date: 1996/04/09
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