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On Sun, 21 Sep 1997 16:56:09 -0700 (PDT), Steve Parker wrote: >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. > I'm thinking of getting a 3COM PCMCIA 10Base-T card to use instead of my Home & (Support is far) Away. Has anyone here used it? Any cons/pros? And no, this is not the CardBus model. Paul