Is this the place I drop the fact/factoid/rumor that the Mac serial ports can take an external clock signal, and run faster than Localtalk? I know the Farallon serial/ethernet adapters do it.

Also, the second hardware serial port is available from the docking connector, yeah?

And:

http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10004

http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10253

http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10269

http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10808

http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10822 (versions available with on-PCB antenna or antenna socket)

http://www.sparkfun.com/products/11049 (bare module version of above)

Seems to me the cleanest thing from a Mac point of view would be something that pretends to be a modem, and squirts Ethernet/WiFi packets out the other end (which, from my reading, some of the above do).

I picked one of these things up because, well, for

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Agreed But Trash - you have gotta get it clear in your head that just because something says USB doesn't mean it converts both ways!