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At 5:18 PM -0800 9/21/97, Paul Khoury wrote: >On Sun, 21 Sep 1997 16:56:09 -0700 (PDT), Steve Parker wrote: > >> 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. Doesn't the 10baset side of the H&A work fine? We wrassled with ours for a week or so to get the modem going, but didn't bother to even test the 10BaseT due to all the positive reports. BTW last time I was at Fry's they were selling the H&A for $22.