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Post #1 by macroexp
Source ForumMac SE EtherTalk speed? — #1
CategoryNetworking
Post DateFri, 27 Nov 2015 - 21:53
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/mac-se-ethertalk-speed.3035/
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It's insufferably slow!

I have an SE running 7.1 - 800k FDD, 4MB RAM, SCSI2SD with a 256mb microSD, and an (Excelan/Kinetics/Shiva) Etherport SE. I also have netatalk 2.2.4 set up on a Linux VM with EtherTalk/DDP enabled, and a Basilisk II instance running 7.5.3 on a Windows VM.

AppleTalk to or from the SE is really slow. Like, 3-4 KB/s slow. I thought "well, probably the 8 MHz cpu" but then I tried the built-in FTP server in BetterTelnet - and files move at 50-60 KB/s! 

I'd really rather use EtherTalk for a couple reasons, obviously, preservation of the resource fork, but it's also more fun and user friendly.

Any ideas on what might be going on, or... is this normal?

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