psych@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (R.Crispin - Psychology) (05/24/89)
I was looking to speed up our Appletalk network so I bought a couple of TOPS flashboxes. I wanted to be sure they would not interfer with the server software etc. I had no problems so I bought one for each mac on the net. This was a mistake. As soon as I installed them the network pretty much stopped. A process that took 30 secs. starting taking 30 mins. or longer. I had a Appletalk guru come over to see if he could figure out what was going on. After a couple of hours of running some tests he concluded that the software (init) that comes with the boxes was never set up to work properly with a network that has a server. What really happens is one machine to one machine works fine, two machines trying to talk to a third machine results in transmission problems. We have reported this to TOPS and hopefully they will fix it. Currently the system will only work well if you are using TOPS as a distributed service. Richard Crispin Dept. of Psychology Bitnet: psych@watdcs University of Waterloo Unix : psych@watdcsu.UWaterloo.ca Waterloo, Ont. Canada N2L 3G1 (519)885-1211 ext 2879
psych@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (R.Crispin - Psychology) (05/26/89)
I got a call from the TOPS people because they saw my message on the networt. The person was very nice and wanted to be sure that it was not a further problem but related to the first report. She said they are trying to duplicate the problem. This is great customer service. I wish everyone would monitor the net and behave in such a customer oriented way. Richard Crispin Dept. of Psychology Bitnet: psych@watdcs University of Waterloo Unix : psych@watdcsu.UWaterloo.ca Waterloo, Ont. Canada N2L 3G1 (519)885-1211 ext 2879