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From: jenner@post.ntu.edu.au (Bob Jenner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Advice sought
Message-ID: <1991Feb6.082454.569@darwin.ntu.edu.au>
Date: 5 Feb 91 22:54:53 GMT
References: <1991Feb5.202215.11258@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Organization: Northern Territory University
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In article <1991Feb5.202215.11258@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> 
cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Christopher M Mauritz) writes:
> Currently, my Laserwriter and another Mac are hanging off the
> network via a Kinetics Fastpath 4 box.  This peice of garbage
> seems to overheat after being on more than an hour or so and
> my Laserwriter vanishes off the network (thus preventing me
> from printing from my Mac).  The box has been changed twice and
> the problem persists.  Can someone recommend a BETTER brand?
> Or would I be better off putting an ethernet card in that other
> Mac II (which is currently dangling onto the network via that
> fastpath box) and just hooking the Laserwriter up to the
> network that way?

Maybe your problem is not the F'Path bridge? We have 4 of these bridges on 
campus and have had no problems at all. In fact I protested when one of 
the bridges was installed in an unventilated cupboard (the one this 
message is sent via, in fact).We have sometimes had problems with nodes 
"disappearing" off the network and have traced them back to faulty wiring 
or unterminated ends on the network.
It might pay to get your appletalk net checked out...regards,

Bob Jenner, Northern Territory University
Computing Dep't.
PO Box 40146, Casuarina NT Australia 0810
Tel 089-466397