RE: [WinMac] Half-duplex with built-in ethernet on G3/G4

John Hanks(jbh[at]biology.usu.edu)
Tue, 23 Nov 1999 15:56:59 -0700

> At 8:55 AM -0700 11/23/99, John Hanks wrote:
> >I need to set the ethernet on couple of these machines to
> half-duplex,
>
> Why?!?
>
> Doing that would cut your network speed in half...
>
>
> LDR

The local network gurus tell me that full duplex is marketing hype. Being
the suspicious type I tried it both ways and they were right, at least for
my setup, because I get *much* better throughput with things set to half
duplex. I can go to them and get the technical details if you are interested
in hearing them.

Since the only two machine I have that are trying to use full duplex are a
couple of Macs that don't communicate directly to each other, it is not
critically important that I make them stop trying. But it hurts my pride to
not be able to force them to use half duplex.

jbh

John Hanks
System Administrator
Dept. of Biology
Utah State University

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