Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!saqqara.cis.ohio-state.edu!elwell From: elwell@saqqara.cis.ohio-state.edu (Clayton Elwell) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: TOPS and low-speed modems Message-ID: <17239@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 8 Jul 88 15:17:03 GMT References: <8807081100.AA11456@hop.toad.com> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Computer and Information Science Lines: 27 sunny@astral.UUCP writes: You'd think that TOPS would be interested in making available either a new version of their software, or some kind of patch which would allow a longer timeout so that we could successfully run TOPS across modem bridges and modem remote access links. But then, who cares what the $ paying user wants... Sunny Well, we've gotten some recent beta versions from TOPS, and although I don't think we're under non-disclosure (we've only got 1700 students using them :-)), I'll only say this much: they have improved performance across bridges in general to quite an impressive extent. We don't use InterBridges, so I don't know if it will help, but all of our timeout and performance problems have disappeared. There are some other nice things (and of course, a few more bugs :-)), but there is hope. I have historically had a real bad attitude about TOPS, but even I feel that they seem to be getting their act together, which is nice to see. Clayton M. ElwellOhio State University CIS Dept. Research Computing Facility "... there was a *third* possibility that we hadn't even counted upon ..." --Arlo Guthrie, "Alice's Restaurant"