kenw@noah.arc.CDN (Ken Wallewein) (12/12/87)
Have you looked into Phone-Net? It's a replacement for the Appletalk
hardware. My understanding is that it supports twice as many units as
Appletalk, and is cheaper, to boot. Everything I've heard about it is
positive. We'll probably be getting it ourselves soon.
Never heard about that TOPS repeater... interesting.
/kenw
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Ken Wallewein R E S E A R C H
kenw@noah.arc.cdn C O U N C I LSTAFF.SAS@chip.uchicago (Stuart Schmukler) (12/12/87)
Glynda:
We have two TOPS repeaters installed in our building. One
connecting a corner office to the main AppleTalk, so the AppleTalk is
now a "T". The other is connecting two floors of programmers (~ 40
machines) in place of a Hayes Interbridge.
SaS
-------jonesg@pc.ecn.purdue.edu (Glynda Jones) (12/18/87)
We just popped in a TOPS Repeater Thursday afternoon (12/17). Our entire network worked fine for about ten minutes, and then the fun started. After the dust settled, we found a casualty. The Kinetics Gateway box could not cope with the new and improved signal. We are going to send the K-box back for a post-mortem, and are hopeful that they can fix it (we can make him stronger, faster....). If anyone is aware of problems using a Kinetics box /repeater on the same LAN, now is your chance to become my personal hero. If the solution is one of turning on devices in a certain sequence, by all means tell me. If it is an incompatibility problem, tell me anyway (sigh). At any rate, the local (Appletalk) network works fine. All nodes are seen from end to end (1500-1700 ft.), and everyone can see the LaserWriter (the chief beef!!). Before I heartily endorse this product, I must find out more about the K-box's status. Any Kinetics People out there?? TOPS folks?? There are a BUNCH of people waiting for the answer (they are hoping for good news). Glynda Jones Davis (One of the Blind Leading the Blind)