Token ring (UK) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

22 Jul 2003

Where I work (in the UK) we have token ring.  Great network, but 16meg is slow... even if
you can load it up to 90% and still have it work.

I have a Andrew MAU under my desk at home.  Am going to set up my own token ring
segment... only problem is, it is a US box, and wants 110 v.

take Care,

Mark

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Fred N. van Kempen" &lt;waltje(a)pdp11.nl&gt;
Reply-To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Date:  Tue, 22 Jul 2003 08:20:27 +0200 (CEST)

...
 On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 ghldbrd(a)ccp.com wrote:

  I have a box full of token-ring adapters, IBM new
in the box, and can't
 find a nibble here in the States.  I've been told that token ring
 netowrking is an IBM only system, and requies an IBM server to play. Nah.  Although
they ended up being the only ones still holding on to
it, TR was, at one point, a fairly widely-used topology, especially
in areas where network delay was an issue.  4Mbps TR was faster than
10Mbps Ethernet, when under heavy load, simply because TR avoids the
collapsing of throughput when the number of collisions goes up (on
Ethernet). 