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Subject: Re: Nodem SCSI-EtherTalk
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Date: 23 Sep 90 20:54:34 GMT
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I tested the NODEM product and was not impressed.  It had a poorly designed
case that would come apart in your hands just from the pressure of unplugging
a tight ethernet cable.  (It snapped together rather than being held firmly
with screws).
 
Also, its performance on a Mac Plus was terrible.  This may not be the fault
of the NODEM, but I was getting only about 4K/second with Telnet or MacIP
downloads as opposed to about 15K/second with a 3Com Ethernet board equipped
Mac SE.
 
If you could get a NODEM for only a couple of hundred bucks, I might be
willing to live with the poor performance, but they cost far more than
that.