Edinburgh Regional Computing Centre
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      For the attention of the Edinburgh Computer Users Committee
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                  Report on Communications
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TCPs     The number of terminals on the Library TCP has been increased from
----     32 to 48.  A fault which has been causing spurious 'Terminal
         Violations' while using the screen editors has been found and fixed.

FEPs     The FEPs on the 2988 have been crashing recently due to a problem
----     with the new 2900 hardware.  The FEPs should no longer actually
         crash but there is still an unresolved problem with the hardware.

PSS      The service has been very stable.
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Nodes    The large increase in users during this term has overloaded both
-----    of our local Nodes.  This has meant that users have seen a poor
         response caused partially by network delays and in extreme cases a
         loss of the connection to the Host.
         In order to preserve the service, the network was restructured with
         a 2972 FEP connected directly to Node 6 rather than the Cambridge
         Ring, in addition, a smaller PDP11 has been put into service as
         a third FEP.  Unfortuantly these changes have caused some hardware
         problems in Node 6 and this has meant that the Node has been taken
         out of service for most lunchtimes in the past couple of weeks.

X25      An X25 TCP (called a PAD) has been delivered and is being tested.
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                                                       B. Gilmore
                                                       Nov. 1982