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From: dave@suna.CMI.COM (David Halonen)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Ethernet vs LocalTalk
Message-ID: <278@suna.CMI.COM>
Date: 1 May 89 21:17:00 GMT
Reply-To: dave@suna.cmi.com.UUCP (David Halonen)
Organization: Center for Machine Intelligence, Ann Arbor, MI
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Hopefully I'm not rehashing dry material with this, but I have some
questions for netland.  I've just finished reading MacUser's May '89
article comparing Ethernet to LocalTalk and I'm wondering if Ethernet
is worth its cost?

According to the review, a move to an Ethernet network would result in
only an incrimental gain in performance.  The biggest gain was for
large file transfers, which had an increase in performance of 43%.
The average gain was about 20% (?), overall.

Its my feeling that the CPU speeds must be increased in order for the
advantages of Ethernet to be realized.  Comments, anyone?

Also, could someone please provide me a summary of thier experiences
with switching from LocalTalk to Ethernet?  I'll summarize to the net
or to interested parties if the interest is there.

Thanks
-- 
David Halonen, Center for Machine Intelligence, Electronic Data Systems
Ann Arbor, MI  (313) 995-0900
AppleLink: N0548   Internet: dave@suna.cmi.com