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From: demarsee@ICARUS.CNS.SYR.EDU (Darryl E. Marsee)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: Increasing RAM on AppleShare Server
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Date: 12 Oct 89 18:34:44 GMT
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>I just copied a 2Meg file from a server (Mac II, some sort of Northern 
>Telecom big disk with built-in backup) to my Mac II (Apple Ethernet card, 
>using MPW duplicate) and got a data rate of 42890 bytes/sec, or 
>343Kbit/sec. Not astounding, but better than 15kbyte/sec.

 Pete, this proportion pretty much agrees with what we've seen.  In timing
 tests to see how long it takes to launch an application over the network
 from an AppleShare server, there was an approximately threefold increase in
 speed when running over EtherTalk than when running over LocalTalk.

 Darryl Marsee
 Syracuse University