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From: derosa@motcid.UUCP (John DeRosa)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: Farallon StarController restictions
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Date: 11 Jan 91 19:41:24 GMT
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andyd@pogo.WV.TEK.COM (Andy Davidson) writes:

> ...............For each of the 12
>ports on a single controller, there are 4 "branches" each of which can have
>up to 750 feet of cabling.  Farralon technical support says that they
>recommend and support only one device (Mac, printer, whatever) per branch. 

We have 20 or so star controllers in our network.  Each
of the branches on each star controller has more than one device, in
fact four "runs" to an office per branch is standard.  From time to 
time, one of those runs magically "grows" another device and all is still well.

Now, all this is based on experience rather than testing.  I assume
that as more devices are added to a zone, the load increases and 
throughtput decreases.  Another of our divisions did some testing
and stated that 15 devices is the magic number, more than that and
your throughput decreases.
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