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From: evelyn@uts.amdahl.com (Evelyn Mast)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Farallon vs. Nuvotech Star Control
Message-ID: <96XJ02528cc601@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 28 Feb 90 00:41:56 GMT
References: <88500008@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: evelyn@key.amdahl.com (Evelyn Mast)
Organization: Key Computers, Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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In article <88500008@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu> ddunlap@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>Hello Netland,
>
>I am in the process of installing a building-wide AppleTalk network.  I have
>decided that a star controller is the way to go.  I had originally been
>planning on using the controller from Farallon, but have discovered that
>Nuvotech has a 16 port controller for only a slightly higher price than
>Farallon's 12 port box.
>
>So, what I want to know is, does anyone out there have experience with both
>controllers that can give a comparison?  If not, do you have anything good
>or bad to say about either of the controllers?  Is there another controller
>I should be looking at?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Dave Dunlap
>Manager of Systems Services
>Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>ddunlap@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu

We currently have the Farallon StarController, and when I expand our
network I will get a Nuvotech TurboStar.  The Farallon is a fine box,
but the reasons I will go for the TurboStar are:
1) 4 more ports on the TurboStar
2) the star management software for the TurboStar is much better than
   for the StarController.  For one thing, to set up a Mac to manage
   the Farallon you have to use a special "management connection" on
   the side of the box.  And there are distance limitations and special
   wiring considerations for this management connection.  The Nuvotech
   has software which will allow one to manage the ports from anywhere
   on the network (I believe), anyway you don't have to use any special
   connections.

Evelyn Mast
amdahl!key!evelyn