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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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- Wednesday, January 27, 1993
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- 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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