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From: mark@shiva.com (Mark D. Pesce)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: Dial-up Localtalk Bridging
Message-ID: <1990Oct14.185020.17876@Shiva.COM>
Date: 14 Oct 90 18:50:20 GMT
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I hope this isn't too self serving (as I am an employee
of Shiva corp.) but:

2400bps access will be fine for both QuickMail and TOPS.
It won't be a speed demon, in any case, but it will work.
There is a caveat though.  If you have large enclosures
in QuickMail, the protocol does seem to *burp* quite a
bit at 2400bps.  This means that you may have some trouble
getting large (>50K) enclosures across on the first try.

You should be able to use the printers on either side of the link
without any problem at all.  Printing does not seem to be bothered
by low-speed links.

AppleShare, (if you do intend to use it) doesn't work as well
as either QuickMail or TOPS at 2400bps.  The problem is somewhere
deep within AppleShare, and while there is a workaround coded into
the Telebridge alieviate the problem, its a solution we don't
normally recommend.

I have actually done all the things that you're planning to
do and I'm speaking from experience when I say that they'll
all work fine, with the exceptions as noted above.

Hope this helps.

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