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| Which Nubus Ethernet card - Farallon PN590A-TP or DaynaPort E/11-T? | |
| Posted by: TimHD on 2016-08-28 05:34:14 Have a Mac IIfx and 2 Nubus Ethernet cards to choose from to put in it: - Farallon PN590a-TP V1.3 NuBus Ethernet card and - DaynaPort E/11-T Rev A NuBus Ethernet card The latter looks smaller, more compact (fewer chips), and has a RJ45 10baseT adapter only. The Farallon one has AAUI and 10BaseT connectors and is larger, with more chips etc. Any real difference between these for networking/compatability. Have largely used Asante and Farallon (or Apple) cards, not DaynaPorts ones. Any difference? | |
| Posted by: techknight on 2016-08-28 06:49:29 I dont think it matters, as I believe the later versions of the Apple Ethernet extension supports all those cards. The biggest difference I think would be throughput, how close can you push to the 10MBPs between the cards? But again I dont think thats gonna matter either because the storage bus is slow. | |
| Posted by: Paralel on 2016-08-28 08:33:07 I'm partial to Farallon, but that's strictly personal preference. | |
| Posted by: olePigeon on 2016-08-30 14:15:00 I've found that Dayna cards will sometimes only work with their drivers installed, but Farallon will work with the default Apple NB driver. My vote would be for the Farallon. | |
| Posted by: TimHD on 2016-09-04 21:29:05 Seems DaynaPort E/II works best under 7.5.5/7.5.3 OT1.3 and not the 7.1 / 7.1.2 I have been trying. Looks like Farrallon for the 7.1 system and DaynaPort for the 7.5.5 one. | |
| Posted by: Paralel on 2016-09-05 14:43:50 You can use OT 1.3 on 7.1.2 68k. I actually run OT1.3.1 on 7.1.2 68k no problem. | |
| Posted by: macclassic on 2019-12-02 15:11:05 I've just got a Farallon card but don't know what the three position switch does? | |
| Posted by: Compgeke on 2019-12-02 16:12:37 It'll depend on which card. Typically it's a switch to select whether it's AUI, thin net or thick net .  | |
| Posted by: olePigeon on 2019-12-03 10:02:59 Old thread, but I'd thought I'd mention that Apple's NuBUS ethernet card is easily the best card of them all. The A/ROSE makes a VERY big different on slower machines. Even on my 040 accelerated IIci, my network speeds were noticeably faster. | |
| Posted by: Iesca on 2022-04-01 14:50:49 Sorry to necro, but I don't suppose anyone has the manual for the Farallon PN590a-TP by chance? Just picked one up for my Mac II. | |
Posted by: mg.man on 2022-04-02 13:40:36I don't suppose anyone has the manual for the Farallon PN590a-TPWould this help? - https://androda.work/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/FarallonEtherMacManual.pdf | |
| Posted by: Iesca on 2022-04-02 16:26:27 Amazing! Thank you! | |
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