The Hotline Users Digest #186 - Thursday, May 22, 1997

  Re: The Hotline Users Digest #46 - 02/25/97
          by Jeremy Anthony Kinsey <kinseyj@it.uwp.edu>
  OT, 7.6.1, and a Daystar 601/100 Card...
          by tim thomas <tim_thomas@cmug.com>
  Re: OT, 7.6.1, and a Daystar 601/100 Card...
          by Denny Henderson <denny@geek.it.iupui.edu>
  Re: .sit files on PCs...
          by Jamez <jamez@v-wave.com>
  Transfers slow down or stop
          by Jon Miller <jmiller@miller.edcc.edu>


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Subject: Re: The Hotline Users Digest #46 - 02/25/97
From: Jeremy Anthony Kinsey <kinseyj@it.uwp.edu> (by way of
 phil@HotlineSW.com (Phil Hilton))
Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 07:20:52 +0100

Does anyone out there have copies of the Hotline Digest form #1 to 45???

I have #46 to 184 and am archiving them for history.

Please send to hotlinearchive@mia.net

thanx..

Jeremy Kinsey

On the eighth day, God created Macintosh...

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Phil Comments:

Just be aware that #1 is not the begining.
The List started as a manual list in AIMS,
Then was upped to MacjorDomo, and #1 starts
when it started running off Letterrip. Just
so ya know...



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Subject: OT, 7.6.1, and a Daystar 601/100 Card...
From: tim thomas <tim_thomas@cmug.com> (by way of Phil Hilton)
Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 16:46:08 -0400


I have a problem which perhaps someone can help me with. I want to use
HotLine on my older Mac, a IIvx with a daystar 601/100 card.

If I run open transport, as HotLine requires, my file download throughput
is miserable. Down around 500bps. This is true of any file downloads,
whether they be NetScape, Explorer, or HotLine.

If I run Classic networking with MacTCP, I get fine throughput, up around
3.7 kbps. Unfortunately, Hotline requires OT.

So does anyone have any suggestions for a workaround. I generally run 7.6.1
and OT 1.1.2 with OTppp on this machine, but I'd do anything to make this
work, as this is the machine I want to use for the internet while I
actually work on my other machine. This machine, a 9500/132, of course does
fine with HL, but... I use it all day.

Thanks very much for any suggestions.

Tim Thomas


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Tim Thomas
Preacher@cmug.com



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Subject: Re: OT, 7.6.1, and a Daystar 601/100 Card...
From: Denny Henderson <denny@geek.it.iupui.edu> (by way of Phil Hilton)
Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 20:25:12 -0400

tim thomas (by way of Phil Hilton) wrote:
>
> I have a problem which perhaps someone can help me with. I want to use
> HotLine on my older Mac, a IIvx with a daystar 601/100 card.
>
> If I run open transport, as HotLine requires, my file download throughput
> is miserable. Down around 500bps. This is true of any file downloads,
> whether they be NetScape, Explorer, or HotLine.
>
> If I run Classic networking with MacTCP, I get fine throughput, up around
> 3.7 kbps. Unfortunately, Hotline requires OT.
>
> So does anyone have any suggestions for a workaround. I generally run 7.6.1
> and OT 1.1.2 with OTppp on this machine, but I'd do anything to make this
> work, as this is the machine I want to use for the internet while I
> actually work on my other machine. This machine, a 9500/132, of course does
> fine with HL, but... I use it all day.
>
> Thanks very much for any suggestions.
>
> Tim Thomas

I'm using hotline on a IIcx...plus a Radius Rocket card.

I'm using sys 7.1 with OY 1.1.2 and it works OK..

might be worth a try if you have the time to do the reinstalls.

Denny



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Subject: Re: .sit files on PCs...
From: Jamez <jamez@v-wave.com> (by way of Phil Hilton)
Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 20:32:31 -0400

>.sit files don't have any important resource fork.

only if the files were encrypted, then there is important info in the
resource fork

"DOS Computers manufactured by companies such as IBM, Compaq, Tandy, and
millions of others are by far the most popular, with about 70 million
machines in use worldwide. Macintosh fans, on the other hand, may note
that cockroaches are far more numerous than humans, and that numbers
alone do not denote a higher life form."

		-New York Times, November



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Subject: Transfers slow down or stop
From: Jon Miller <jmiller@miller.edcc.edu> (by way of Phil Hilton)
Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 20:37:35 -0400

Has anyone else experienced the slowdown issue using Hotline on a LAN?  I
find that transfers start out really quick...to about 700K and then they
stop at about 3 Megs. They then trickle along at about 25K or less.  I can
make the transfer continue at full speed if I open up different windows or
obtain information on logged in users.  I am using the following version:

Server and Client-->  1.1b21r2

I am using the latest version aren't I?

Server Specs:

-Absolute minimum system with the exception of SpeedDoubler 2.0.3
-OT 1.1.2
-System 7.6.1
-80 Megs of RAM
-Disk cache 2048k
-Hotline Server 10 Megs

Any ideas or is this fixed in the next release?

Thanks! :-)

Jon

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Phil Says:

It is indeed a bug. (yes.. even Hotline is not
immune =] ) We're hoping to have it fixed for b22.
In the mean time, You'l have to keep refreshing
windows or chatting, or doing SOMETHING to give
it a "kick" :)

As for your server specs, Yer Server app has
WAAAAY too much mem! Hotline only needs one meg
alloted to do it's thing; (unless you have a
packed server all the time). transfers take
memory from the "Largest Free Block", (the one you
see in the "about this mac" window...), so give HL
as little memory as you can get away with, and
leave the rest free for file transfers.



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