On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 07:14:46 +0100, "Meindert Sprang"
wrote:

I know that Larry, but the devices I mentioned, do not even have Navnet,
just plain NMEA.....
Navnet AKA ethernet adds so much cost to a device that you only see it on
the chartplotters and multifunction units that already cost a few couple of
grand. And you can see that with all manufacturers. If ethernet was really
that cheap, why wouldn't all manufacturers have already equipped all of
their products with ethernet?

The cheapest notebooks all have ethernet NICs in them. A PCI NIC is
under $15 retail nowadays.

Product cycles are a lot slower in marine instruments than computers,
but I would expect anything new to have ethernet.




Rodney Myrvaagnes J36 Gjo/a


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