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From: typ125m@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (John Wilkins)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: Problems with Nodems on Ethernet
Message-ID: <1990Dec19.033827.23551@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
Date: 19 Dec 90 03:38:27 GMT
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Organization: Caulfield Campus, Monash University, Melb., Australia.
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waire@seas.gwu.edu (Timothy A. Waire) writes:

>I'll just get right to the problems, about 20-25 of our Macintosh users are
>connected to Ethernet via Adaptec Nodems.  These are SCSI Ethernet devices
>connected to SE/30s.  Since we have owned them the user is periodically erased

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>Does anyone know what could be the problem?  My conclusions are that the 
>software provided by Adaptec is not very robust.  I come to this conclusion
>because of the current limbo status of the company's product line.

I am most interested in your last statement. We have a number of Adaptec
Nodems, and they appear to play up with excess housekeeping, slowing
them down so that they are slower than simple localtalk (which we have
in a few cases reverted to). What do you mean "limbo status"? Are
they in receivership or something?  BTW, does anyone have an Internet
address for anyone at Adaptec so we can harass them directly from
Australia? The local distributors aren't even up on localtalk, let
alone ethernet on the Mac.

-- 
John Wilkins, Manager, Publishing & Advertising, Monash University
Melbourne, Australia - Internet: john@publications.ccc.monash.edu.au
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