Re: TCP/IP faster than SPX?

We made some tests with TCP/IP, SPX and NAMED PIPES. TCP proved to be the best and named pipes was the worst. Named pipes is a high level protocol that relies on other protocols. You get an extra layer of translation with it. If you can, stick with TCP/IP.

Sylvain Leclerc
sleclerc_at_magrit.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jim_donovan_at_playstation.sony.com (Jim Donovan)
> [SMTP:jim_donovan_at_playstation.sony.com]
> Posted At: Friday, May 08, 1998 2:15 PM
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> Conversation: TCP/IP faster than SPX?
> Subject: Re: TCP/IP faster than SPX?
>
> On Thu, 07 May 1998 00:10:45 GMT, gennick_at_worldnet.att.net (Jonathan
> Gennick) wrote:
>
> >Someone told me that in a Windows NT environment that using
> >TCP/IP is much faster than SPX. Is this true? They could
> >not point to any specific reference to back that up.
> >
> >Also, what about named pipes? How does this compare as a
> >connection method? Is it preferable to any of the others?
> >
> >
>
> TCP/IP has been shown to be faster than other network protocols under
> NT. In practice however, I've never seen a significant performance
> difference between Named Pipes, TCP/IP, and IPX/SPX when running on a
> LAN. Of far more significance is how well your applications are
> designed/tuned.
>
> Jim Donovan
> MCSE
> jim_donovan_at_playstation.sony.com
Received on Mon May 11 1998 - 12:18:12 CDT