[117] in resnet
Re: YES YES YES!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (nocturne@MIT.EDU)
Fri Jan 14 04:57:02 1994
From: nocturne@MIT.EDU
To: fihsu@MIT.EDU
Cc: sdallas@MIT.EDU, resnet@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 14 Jan 94 02:29:17 -0500.
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 94 04:56:15 EST
PRT >Will buying really cheap no-name cards hurt the performance of the
PRT >whole network, or just that machine?
> 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.
I think those of us who are concerned with the issue of performance are
painfully aware of this limitation... :-) (the effective data rate is not
even that high, if I understand the way things work correctly...)
I, for one, will be interested in optimal performance within the ET subnet
as well as with the world outside the walls of our little yellow house in
Brookline.
So does anyone have an answer to Phillip's question (and mine) ?
-Eric Mumpower
nocturne@mit
Epsilon Theta, SIPB
