Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site cadtroy.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!amd!decwrl!decvax!wivax!cadmus!cadtroy!schoff From: schoff@cadtroy.UUCP (Martin Lee Schoffstall) Newsgroups: net.lan Subject: Re: Re: IBM PC networking Message-ID: <114@cadtroy.UUCP> Date: Mon, 15-Oct-84 11:57:26 EDT Article-I.D.: cadtroy.114 Posted: Mon Oct 15 11:57:26 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Oct-84 05:35:11 EDT References: <682@cadmus.UUCP> <10457@gatech.UUCP> Organization: CADMUS [Troy Office], Troy, NY Lines: 15 > The 82586 processor handles mainly the media access protocols (I think). > Since the Sytek network is CSMA/CD, all they have to do is put different > serial encoder on and they have a broadband network. The reason they can > use CSMA/CD on a rather large CATV plant is the data rate on the broadband > channel is only 128kbps (assuming it is the same as the Sytek Localnet 20 > product line). > They call the product Localnet/PC. The only problem is that they advertise a data-rate of 2Mbits. It is possible however that each channel is running at 128kbits and some concatenatin of channels gives them an aggregate of 2Mbits. In fact since they seem to want virtual disks across this network, it would be a real loser if the transfer rate was limited by one channel@128kbits. marty