Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lts!amanda
From: amanda@lts.UUCP (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: What is EtherTalk speed?
Message-ID: <731@lts.UUCP>
Date: 11 Dec 88 01:04:00 GMT
References: <488@dbase.UUCP>
Reply-To: amanda@lts.UUCP (Amanda Walker)
Organization: InterCon Corporation, Reston, VA
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Well, TOPS is not the world's greatest speed test for networks.  Over an
Ethernet, TOPS is a little faster than over LocalTalk, but that's about it.
My guess is that since TOPS runs "in the background," it only looks at the
network every so often.  AppleShare, on the other hand, is about as fast
over EtherTalk as a local SCSI hard disk.

The conclusion: the speed you get depends as much or more on the
software as it does on the hardware. 

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Amanda Walker			...!uunet!lts!amanda / lts!amanda@uunet.uu.net
			  InterCon, 11732 Bowman Green Drive, Reston, VA 22090
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