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Date:      Mon, 14 Oct 1996 09:32:33 -0400
From:      exidor@nimbus.superior.net (Christopher Masto)
To:        luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo)
Cc:        question@freebsd.org, isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ppp over vty possible ?
Message-ID:  <199610141332.JAA16872@nimbus.superior.net>
In-Reply-To: <199610140713.IAA12451@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>; from Luigi Rizzo on Oct 14, 1996 08:13:59 %2B0100
References:  <199610140713.IAA12451@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>

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Luigi Rizzo writes:
> When I use ppp from home (14.4 modem) with telnet (and possibly
> other apps, I haven't checked), the RTT is suspiciously close to
> 200 ms (within 10ms; I have a modified kernel which prints the
> current RTT and bandwidth on every connection). As you can imagine,
> typing this way is not the most pleasant thing in the world.

That doesn't sound very suprising to me.  I typically see 200-300ms
ping times over a modem running PPP.  There's a lot of turnaround
latency in 14.4/28.8 modems.
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