In article <[log in to unmask]>, Wirt Atmar
<[log in to unmask]> writes
>Joe asks:
>
>> I have a client who is running about 150 terminals on a 957 and he is happy
>>  with the performance he is getting, but if he has even 10 PC's connect via
>>  telnet, the performance on the 957 seems to go all to heck.  Is this a
>>  known problem or a mystery or what?
>
>From all of the reports that we're getting, telnet is putting any substantial
>load on any HP3000 that we've seen. Indeed, it's presence seems to be almost
>unmeasurable. It's more than likely something else is the problem. James
>Hoffmeister in his posting of just a few days ago was a great deal more
>reserved about telnet's performance than I would have been, but he did say:
>"Note: The feedback I have heard from the folks out here on the 3000-l news
>group is that Telnet performance is great."
>
>Is the user running a telnet card in a DTC or is he running host-based
>telnet? We've certainly had no performance problems at all with host-based.

I would concur with Wirt's comments on Telnet performance there are
ScreenJet customers with several hundred users of Telnet with no
performance degradation at all.

A couple of questions that may help isolate the problems.

When you say "the performance goes to heck" is that the performance of
everything on the M/C or just the performance of Telnet session users?

I assume that these are LAN connected sessions not DTC card sessions
which were slow. If they are LAN connections but they are replacing
Direct Connect Terminal sessions it is possible that they are exposing a
weakness in your LAN topology. We have found at a couple of sites where
the LAN access to the 3000 had been limited in the past, increasing it
exposes that the 3000 is off the main highway so to speak and down a
very narrow band width limited track.

What version of MPE/iX are they running?, 6.0 and above gives good
performance

What kind of memory configuration do they have on the 957 for 150 users?

>
>
>>  Also, he asked me to recommend a terminal emulator which would give him a
>>  reasonable terminal; he doesn't want to spend the big bucks for Reflection
>
>Believe it or not, there are now three free terminal emulators for the
>HP3000: QCTerm, ScreenJet, and Zebra. QCTerm is at:
>
>     http://aics-research.com/qcterm
>

I hope Wirt won't mind me mentioning :-) that ScreenJet can be
downloaded from:

      www.millware.com


Alan
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