Re: Client Access

[Jerome Draper <jdraper@xxxxxxx>]

something is drastically wrong here because my customers regularly get sub
3 second signon displays when they jettison the router.  Vern has long
championed this connection type and I predict that as full implementation
of display, printer, file transfer become available, routers will disappear
along with MCA, OS/2, tokenring, dinosaurs, and SNA.

Jerry

At 04:32 PM 4/28/98 -0400, you wrote:
>I recently switched from using Client Access connected via twinax & Netsoft
>router to Client Access using Ethernet and TCP/IP to connect to our
>9404-200.  For the longest time I heard how much faster I would be able to
>connect without having to use the dreaded Netsoft router.  With a twinax
>connection, double-clicking on the desktop-created icon took about 1 minute
>to get a signon screen.  (Using Client Access V3R1M3 with current service
>pack).  When I switched to TCP/IP, I wiped client access completely from the
>machine (Pentium 166MMX with 48MB RAM) and reinstalled and applied the
>service pack.  I was a little disappointed to discover that it took roughly
>the same amount of time to get a signon screen via TCP/IP and Ethernet(60
>seconds).  But, I didn't think too much of it.  I've now tried a couple of
>plain old Telnet clients, and I get to a sign on screen on THE SAME MACHINE,
>within ONE SECOND.  WHAT GIVES HERE??? Is there THAT much overhead with
>Client Access ?   Is there a configuration issue here I'm overlooking...
>Any ideas would be greatly appreciated...



Jerry Draper, Trilobyte Software Systems, since 1976
Specializing in connecting PC's, Windows, MAC's, and LAN's to the AS/400
Representing Synapse, Apple, IBM, UDS, MI, DCI, Netsoft, etc.
(415) 457-3431; (415) 258-1658fax; jdraper@wco.com
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