Re: Network for the GS?

[dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <4m7tq9$2uf@blackice.winternet.com>,
Zelix <zelix@winternet.com> wrote:
>
> What's really cool was that I was able to set up my roommate's huge
> HFS partition on my metal BBS as a file area.  The only strange thing
> was that the GS's speaker would click ever time I would catalog the
> hfs volume.  Didn't get a chance to let anyone try and download stuff
> from it...I wonder if it would have worked, since AppleTalk is at
> 57.6k

No it isn't.  It is 230.4k synchronous, so only 8 bits are sent for
each character and the theoretical maximum transfer rate is 28800
bytes per second (the equivalent of an asynchronous serial link at
288k bps).  The bandwidth is limited by packet and protocol overheads,
other network traffic, reaction time of the file server, reaction time
of the workstation, etc.
-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz
Snail mail: P.O. Box 27-103, Wellington, New Zealand