Re: Localtalk connectors

[menacechgo@aol.com (Marsha)]

[posted and mailed]

"william strutts" <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com> wrote in 
news:kykf7.37946$K6.15536476@news2:

> Then the obvious question is where do you get another one?
> Can you make one and what is the ohms of the resister you
> would need?  I only have one.  I tried it on my network and
> I can see my Mac server from my IIgs so it seems to be working.
> Is localtalk better than a serial cable between the two stations?
> Do you get faster transfer rates with the localtalk connectors?
> Or is it the same as the direct connection via serial cable that I
> formerly used?

It's a 120 ohm resistor that connects the two outermost pins of a 4-pin 
phone connector, i.e. the black and yellow lines.  Termination is sometimes 
strange, if it works without the second one I'd run as is... 
I just checked I'm my network is only terminated on one end ( I've got 6 
devices )

The transfer rate is pretty much set in software so a serial cable direct 
between Mac and GS probably wouldn't speed up transfer.  Potential problems 
with direct cable include ground loop voltages.

Marsha


-----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =-----
http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World!
-----==  Over 80,000 Newsgroups - 16 Different Servers! =-----