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From: Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu (Garance Drosehn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: AppleLink (un)Useable?
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Date: 1 Jan 91 00:33:30 GMT
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> In article <2031@metasoft.UUCP>, 
             alan@metasoft.UUCP (Alan Epstein) wrote:
> > Does anyone regularly use AppleLink?
> > 
> > I have found, despite the introduction of v6.0, that this 'service'
> > is slower and less reliable than ever. Is it just my connection
> > or have others found this thing difficult to use?

and in article <0B010004.c6058p@outpost.UUCP>
            peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce) answered:
> It's no speed demon, but I find its performance OK for what I use
> it for (mail, following a few discussions, and the the occasional
> price list lookup).
> 
> I use it after hours most of the time to save money, but the few times
> I've used it primetime I haven't noticed particularly bad performance.

To which I'll toss in the experience of:

Two or three weeks ago I had a miserable time trying to download one file. 
ResEdit 2.1, I think, which was expected to take 45 minutes to download.  I 
must have tried a few dozen times on several consecutive nights to get the 
file, and every time I'd lose the connection part way thru.  Sometimes it 
would just a few minutes into the download before dieing, and the farthest 
it got was about 38 minutes into the download before it stopped.  This was 
quite frustrating.  Most of these downloads were done between 11pm and 5am 
(okay, okay, so I work odd hours...).  It also didn't matter if I tried to
download any other file, I just couldn't seem to keep the connection.

I tried it one more time on the following week, and downloaded the file on 
the first attempt.  Whatever the problem was, I haven't seen it since that 
one week (though I do think that during that week I ran up more connect 
time then I had in the previous 5 months...).

From what little I've used it, if the connections are okay then it seems 
usable to me.  And when there are problems it can be a real nightmare.  I
don't really use it all that much though.

Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu