1) fddi rather than ethernet...
     2) put them on the same subnet
     3) split tcp/ip under MVS so your backup traffic doesn't compete with
     the general public user
     4) adjust the TXNblah parameters, 1 on the server & 1 on the client

     I've got some OS/2 clients and an average, going into an Open System
     Adapter (rather than a 3172) is around 0.5 GB per hour...  if the
     session is sending less data it seems to go faster.  Example: 25,500KB
     in 119 seconds which is @ 720 MB/hr


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Subject: Is 85M an hour good?
Author:  ADSM-L (ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU) at unix,mime
Date:    6/19/97 8:00 AM


Hi,

MVS server w/OS/2 clients. TCP/IP transfer rate is about 80M per hr.  Is
this too slow? How can I increase throughput?  tcpwindowsize and
tcpbuffsize are at 32 (the max).

thanks,

steve white

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