11-28-2007, 03:20 AM
If Bonjour is less chatty than AppleTalk it must be virtually non-existent, because AppleTalk has a bad rep, undeserved in my experience.
At work, with about 200-400 Macs and many PCs accessing a common AppleShare server it's never been a problem. Our biggest network improvement was going from 10BaseT to 100 a few years ago.
We ditched all of the little AppleTalk printers --- you can't kill an hp 5MP --- only because we moved to Cisco VOIP and the IT dorks managed to configure part of it in such a way that caused conflicts with some. Many of our big printers are still AppleTalk, and without issue.
The little Bonjour HP's we now have forget what they're doing half the time, and won't tell the Mac if they are out of paper. Only the Tiger Macs could reliably see Bonjour printers. With Panther it was hit and miss. Sometimes new tech doesn't mean progress.
At work, with about 200-400 Macs and many PCs accessing a common AppleShare server it's never been a problem. Our biggest network improvement was going from 10BaseT to 100 a few years ago.
We ditched all of the little AppleTalk printers --- you can't kill an hp 5MP --- only because we moved to Cisco VOIP and the IT dorks managed to configure part of it in such a way that caused conflicts with some. Many of our big printers are still AppleTalk, and without issue.
The little Bonjour HP's we now have forget what they're doing half the time, and won't tell the Mac if they are out of paper. Only the Tiger Macs could reliably see Bonjour printers. With Panther it was hit and miss. Sometimes new tech doesn't mean progress.