Re: Network for the GS?

[nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates)]

In article <4miuhn$se8@samba.rahul.net>,
Matthew Carlson  <carlson@rahul.net> wrote:
>Okay so your telling me if I hooked up my IIGS to an appletalk server I 
>am going to get a theoretical transfer rate of 230.4kbps or 28.8kBps.
>Very nice.

   If those two were the only machines on the network, your cabling
was of high quality, etc, you could _approach_ the theoretical
transfer. Fact is, apart from some carefully coded demo programs, 
nobody's performance is the theoretical.

   If other computers are appletalked in, they must _share_ the
bandwidth, just as they are sharing the cabling. If your cable is
excessively long (>50 feet, I think), low quality, or runs next to
a Van deGraf generator, your performance is also gonna fall off.

Nathan Mates
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