[axlepin]

This relates to PowerMacs involved in network setups, most often with m$ hardware and software as the networking structure.

Is there something about networking itself which causes so many problems, or could it be that many setups are simply underpowered or poorly-maintained that leads to trouble?

the kind of trouble I mean is a lack of function, or a hinky-behavior situation completely the opposite of my setup at home. I see macs in a netork situation run slower, less stably, and with more strange issues (almost at the X-Files level) than I have ever seen at home.

Printing issues, screen redraw issues...one guy running Quark in classic had his whole OSX rig pulled down by a Quark crash!!!! I have *never* had an app of any type force a reboot of my OSX systems.

any thoughts on this? I know that networks are 'necessary', but often they seem to cancel out the benefits they're supposed to provide.

axle

[-Q-]

Try the Networking Forum. There are some very smart people who hang out there.

[tooki]

Umm, nothing you've described indicates a network problem.

Not that you've described more than one specific problem... care to elaborate?

tooki

[Cipher13]

The Quark crash is a Quark issue that has been documented. Don't blame that on OSX or networking.

Networks are only as good as their administrator, basically...

[ginoledesma]

I haven't experienced Macs having trouble with networks for a veeeeery long time now (the last being circa 1997 when I had to bridge an AppleTalk network with Windows -- and doing that only with the Mac OS). There are times when I find the Mac being "slower" in network throughput, though I could probably attribute that to either software or the network controller hardware. The network cards I have on the PCs (either Intel and 3Com, uberly-priced NICs) seem to outperform most of the network cards I've had before.

What particular problems are you having with? I couldn't get a clear picture of what sorts of difficulties and problem you were having except for the Quark-related thing, which I don't see how it's related to the network problems you mentioned unless you were running it off a network-mounted volume or saving files to a network-mounted volume.