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On Sun, 21 Sep 1997 21:40:27 -0800, Mike Ford wrote: >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. > I don't like the default of IRQ 3 for the modem/ethernet enabler. Right now I am connected with the H&A @ COM3, IRQ 11. I don't know what I will set the SCSI card to when I get it. Is it okay to assign a device to IRQ 9 (cascaded IRQ 2)? I hear that some machines can handle it, and others cannot. Paul