[Ti] Airport File Transfer Speed

[luke]

On Tuesday, March 30, 2004, at 03:44  AM, Tarik Bilgin wrote:

>
> On 30 Mar 2004, at 02:43, luke wrote:
>
>> i have found that leaving Appletalk turned on seems to drastically 
>> slow my network down.
>
> Appletalk is a much "richer" protocol than TCP/IP. (TCP/IP has become 
> the de facto standard in use, across both Unix and Windows)
>
> richer == more data
>
> However these days the OS is much more TCP/IP based, i.e. the only 
> reason you would want to run Appletalk is for compatibility with older 
> machines etc.
>
> Switch it off and only switch on when you need it.


i've also had it explained to me that Appletalk is "chatty" -  i guess 
this means that there is a lot of overhead-data and that the different 
machines are always sending "shouts out to it's peeps"...


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