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From: bandy@capmkt.COM (Shift Happens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: How fast should the EtherTalk board be?
Message-ID: <375@capmkt.COM>
Date: 21 Nov 89 19:39:49 GMT
References: <1049@esatst.yc.estec.nl>
Organization: Capital Market Technology
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neil@yc.estec.nl (Neil Dixon) writes that his Macintosh EtherTalk interface
card in his Mac II is only giving him 4kb/sec transsfer rates with NCSA
Telnet.  He wonders if this is normal.

Unfortunately, it's quite normal.  In addition to your Macintosh being
somewhat slow [no DMA], the EtherTalk card [as of last May, which is the
last time I complained to anyone at Apple about it] doesn't support on-board
buffering, even though they have 16kbytes worth of packet buffers.