Re: LocalTalk throughput

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From: Bill Woodcock
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 03:49

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                                             Wednesday, January 27, 1993

          cr@cs.strath.ac.uk (Chris Reid) writes:
        > does anybody know the maximum throughput I can
        > achieve on a LocalTalk net (between 2-5 Macs 
        > connected via LocalTalk).

    Max theoretical throughput is 230.4 kbits per second, or about 14
    megabits or 1.75 megabytes per minute.  Between a single pair of Macs
    on an average LocalTalk network, maximum real-world performance is
    closer to one megabyte per minute.  This is an extreme generalization.
    Some file transfer methods will be less efficient, and any contention
    for access to the network throughput will lower the data rate of any
    transfers going on.
      
                             -Bill Woodcock

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From: woody@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: LocalTalk throughput
Date: 28 Jan 1993 03:49:19 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
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Summary: About 1 megabyte per second.

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