14 Nov
1999
14 Nov
'99
10:50 a.m.
It's the appletalk. Try TCP/IP. It's
certainly not the cpu you have plenty
of speed there.
Unfortuantly the only options for a Mac these days are Appletalk or Samba,
NFS doesn't seem to be available. I could FTP files, but that's more of a
pain that long Xfer times.
<But are you running over 10baseT (or 10base2) all
the way? Zane's system
<might take a fair performance hit because either the hub or the switch is
<buffering every packet and retransmitting it.
Or there is enough traffic on the net to have holdoffs and collisons which
will really slow things.
In this case the only traffic on the network was between the Mac and the
VMS box. Which is why I was so surprised that the performance was _that_
bad. If I'd have had a bunch of other systems on the network talking at
that time I'd have not been suprised, but the only other system up was my
firewall.
Zane
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