[116] in resnet
Re: YES YES YES!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (fihsu@MIT.EDU)
Fri Jan 14 02:30:01 1994
From: fihsu@MIT.EDU
To: sdallas@MIT.EDU
Cc: resnet@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 13 Jan 94 23:57:46 -0500.
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 94 02:29:17 EST
>From: sdallas@MIT.EDU
>Date: Thu, 13 Jan 94 23:57:46 -0500
>Message-Id: <9401140457.AA03811@puttanesca.MIT.EDU>
>To: resnet@MIT.EDU
>Subject: YES YES YES!
>MCC sells the Allied-T cards for ~$70? is that right? And do they offer
>comparable performance to the 3com cards?
Actually the Allied Telesys card is $95. I'm not sure where the $70 figure
popped up.. for a while I was even believing it was $70. I don't know about
performance though.
>Will buying really cheap no-name cards hurt the performance of the
>whole network, or just that machine?
The thing you should keep in mind is that the cheap no-name cards may simply
not work well (not necessarily performance wise, I'm talking plain working).
Information Systems had done testing on a variety of boards prior to choosing
the Allied Telesys and I'm sure not all of the boards passed their tests.
When installing Lan Workplace for DOS/Windows, there's a menu of cards to
choose from (which I assume determines which driver it picks). If your
card is not on that list, then I wouldn't be surprised if Lan Workplace
didn't work with the card. Even if it is on the list, there still can be
some hassle (like if a new revision of the ethernet board came out and the
driver that comes with Lan Workplace is not quite compatible with the newer
version). About the performance issue. If you're talking the speed of
transfers, keep in mind that the connections between the ILGs and MIT (and
effectively the rest of the world) are only 57.6kbps anyways so even if you
have the fastest ethernet board on earth it's not going to make much of a
difference.
>-phillip tiongson
> sdallas@mit
> Epsilon Theta
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