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From: bmug@garnet.berkeley.edu (BMUG)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: What kind of Mac for AS server?
Message-ID: <22255@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 29 Mar 89 18:46:46 GMT
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In article <22226@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> lauac@mead.qal.berkeley.edu (Alexander Lau) writes:
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>
>BMUG uses an SE/30 for its AppleShare fileserver, along with the 40
>meg drive it came with.  The sucker is still VERY SLOW.  They're using
>PhoneNET, though, not EtherTalk, so I'm not sure if this will help you.
>Also, they're getting a couple of new external 300 meg drives soon.
>
>An SE/30 is actually faster than a IIx or IIcx, this has been discussed
>before many a time.  So, if I were you, I'd get the SE/30, it's the
>fastest one on the market now.
>

Supposedly there are going to be SE30 Ethernet cards available Real Soon
Now; if BMUG can beg or borrow one from one of the companies making
them, we will post our findings to the net re. network speedup.

Using EtherTalk with thin-wire or twisted-pair Ethernet may just be
economical enough for installations where speed is necessary, but
budgets are too strained for the traditional thick-wire stuff.

On the other hand, we've heard that the speedup on AFP servers from an
all Ether system is not as dramatic as one would guess.  Hope we get
to find out firsthand...

John Heckendorn
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