haas@CS.UTAH.EDU (Walt Haas) (04/26/89)
My boss pointed out that one way to speed up an AppleTalk network might be to make a hub that could run the network in a star configuration, so that each Macintosh could have full AppleTalk speed instead of contending with the others on the network. This was proposed as an alternative to spending an extra $1k/machine for Ethernet. Has anybody built such a network? If so, how well did it work? Thanks in advance -- Walt Haas haas@cs.utah.edu utah-cs!haas -------
tjh+atalk.errors@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (04/26/89)
>My boss pointed out that one way to speed up an AppleTalk network might >be to make a hub that could run the network in a star configuration, so >that each Macintosh could have full AppleTalk speed instead of contending >with the others on the network. This was proposed as an alternative to >spending an extra $1k/machine for Ethernet. Has anybody built such a >network? If so, how well did it work? Walt, We have a network topology that is basically two stars with an interconnect. Our Appletalk network is based on existing twisted-pair phone lines with Farralon PhoneNet connectors at each node. Currently we have about 25 nodes with 4 LaserWriters, an AppleShare file server (and print spooler), a PC/AT clone in the Laser lab and a Kinetics FastPath4 ethernet gateway. Performance is dependent basically on how many people are trying print simultaneously. I have not noticed any major slowdowns during the day when I am using a MacII as a terminal to my Sun3/50 via the FastPath. Joseph Warden Department of Chemistry Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY arpa: jtwarden@charis.chem.rpi.edu bitnet: jtwarden@rpitsmts