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From: liemandt@lindy.Stanford.EDU (Joe Liemandt)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: Tops and DaynaTalk
Message-ID: <3273@lindy.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 26 May 89 08:29:29 GMT
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Sender: liemandt@lindy.Stanford.EDU (Joe Liemandt)
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In article <8905251331.AA08020@dsunx1.DSRD.ORNL.GOV> wnn@dsunx1 (W. N. Naegeli) writes:
>Richard Crispin writes:
>>>>>>>>>>
>I was looking to speed up our Appletalk network so I bought a couple of
>TOPS flashboxes.  ...
>After a couple of hours of running some tests
>he concluded that the software (init) that comes with the boxes was
>never set up to work properly with a network that has a server.
><<<<<<<<<
>
>I am interested in this topic too.  Has anyone successfully used FlashTalk
>boxes?  Under what conditions?

>
>Wolfgang N. Naegeli
>Oak Ridge National Laboratory

I have used Flashboxes, but not tested them as extensively as I would
like to. But my general feeling is putting a Flashbox on a Plus or an SE
is almost worthless.  You only get the improvements when a Flashbox equiped
MacII is "talking" to another Flashbox equiped MacII . The 68000 based
machines cannot seem to keep up.

I have also found this to be the case with Ethernet.  The only time
you get a significant speed up over Localtalk is if they are 020 or 030
machines.  Putting an Ethernet card in an SE is a total waste.

Joe Liemandt
Stanford University
liemandt@jessica.stanford.edu