Thanks to everyone who responded to my networking question.  I think the
problem was my networking ignorance.  I had a thin lan segment with three
terminators...and only two are allowed.  So for now I've used the extra
ethernet card on my 3000 (not the one in the multi-IO card that the DTC's
are on).  The DTC performance is fine and I can connect to the 3000 over
the network.

Some time in the near future we'll probably need to get a router or
something and figure out how to connect the building with the DTC16 into
the campus network, but for now that's way over my head.

Thanks again for all the help.
--
Tim

Tom wrote:

> We saw a problem like this when we connected to a new Parent company.
> Turned out the problem was that the data packets were taking variant
> paths because more than one was available. One packet would go directly
> from GA to NC but the packet after it might go frm GA to NJ and then to
> NC. The slowness was caused by massive collisions and out-of-sequence
> packets because of the different timings.