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In article <215@ss01.pppl.gov@ccc.nmfecc.gov>, jsm@ss01.pppl.gov@ccc.nmfecc.gov (John Scott McCauley Jr.) writes:
> I seem to have noticed the following problem. On a Mac+ with Appletalk
> Responder, NCSA Telnet over Appletalk is very slow. Getting rid of
> Responder helps speed things up quite a bit.

1. Ditch responder. 2. Try the new version that came with System 6.04.
If that fixes it, please let us all know.

Didn't we fix this one? From 13 Months ago...

> From: wnn@dsunx1.dsrd.ornl.gov (W. N. Naegeli)
> Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
> Subject: Responder problems
> Date: 17 Nov 88 20:50:07 GMT
> Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU

> We have recently had a great deal of problems and lost many hours to detective
> work until we found Apple's Responder as the culprit.
> ...
>      The problem affected Mac Plus users of NCSA Telnet 2.2 and TCP/Connect.
> In most cases, when the user tried to open a connection, she or he would get
> a message that Telnet (or TCP/Connect) could not connect to the host and a
> second message stating that the Local host or Gateway was not responding.
> If a connection was established, it was usually extremely sluggish, with long
> delays until characters entered at the keyboard would be echoed, and pauses
> of up to 30 seconds during the display of long text documents.  Sometimes
> the connection simply timed out in the middle of a session.  Interestingly,
> this problem was not experienced by a Mac II user on the same LocalTalk
> segment as the Mac Pluses.

This was followed (Nov 88 - wish I'd kept copies) by the respective
authors of NCSA Telnet and Responder exchanging postings over
the net as they went about investigationg the problem.

Was it ever fixed? After more than a year the suspense is killing me :-)

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