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Subject: Re: Slow networking with SMC Elite Ultra 
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Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 00:42:12 +0200
From: Julian Howard Stacey <jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de>
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> I have two 486 boxes on the isolated piece of ether.  I've set
> up networking between the boxes, and they see each other and
> communicate okay, but *very slowly*.

You have 50 ohm terminators on each end of the co-ax ?
(a local friend 3 weeks ago didnt know this was needed, sorry to be basic ;-)

Julian S