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On Sun, 21 Sep 1997, w.t.brown wrote: > I have a Thinkpad 560, pentium 120mz, 24 mb ram. I normally use a serial > cable to copy files back and forth to my desktop, at a speed of 115kps. I > was thinking of buying a jeteye for my desktop to use with > the infrared port on my 560 to copy files. However, Mobile Computing > magazine said their test of infrared > ports showed they effectively only operate at the very slow speed of about > 75kps, way too slow. If you are cheap just use a laplink style parallel cable, if you have more money try two network cards and a cable. The IBM Home and Away card works well on a TP560-120 [I have one] and is about $35 or so, and a desktop Ethernet card is about $20. Add one "crosover" 10-bt cable for about $5 [I just made a 12' one yesterday for a friend for $4 in parts] and you are set. That will get you about 700K/sec to near 1MB/sec throughput. Infrared, parallel and basically everything else are all vastly inferior to this setup. I just sold my H&A card a couple of weeks ago and replaced it with a Motorola Mariner and that works great too. ============================================================================ ==== Steve Parker ==== San Luis Obispo, CA ==== Multi-OS & Multitasking ==== ============================================================================