Token ring (UK)

From: nedry <nedry_at_mail.bedlambells.com>
Date: Tue Jul 22 04:30:01 2003

Where I work (in the UK) we have token ring. Great network, but 16meg is slow... even if you can load it up to 90% and still have it work.

I have a Andrew MAU under my desk at home. Am going to set up my own token ring segment... only problem is, it is a US box, and wants 110 v.

take Care,

Mark

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Fred N. van Kempen" <waltje_at_pdp11.nl>
Reply-To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 08:20:27 +0200 (CEST)

>On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 ghldbrd_at_ccp.com wrote:
>
>> I have a box full of token-ring adapters, IBM new in the box, and can't
>> find a nibble here in the States. I've been told that token ring
>> netowrking is an IBM only system, and requies an IBM server to play.
>Nah. Although they ended up being the only ones still holding on to
>it, TR was, at one point, a fairly widely-used topology, especially
>in areas where network delay was an issue. 4Mbps TR was faster than
>10Mbps Ethernet, when under heavy load, simply because TR avoids the
>collapsing of throughput when the number of collisions goes up (on
>Ethernet).
Received on Tue Jul 22 2003 - 04:30:01 BST