From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 27 14:54:52 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA25322 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 14:54:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nanguo.chalmers.com.au (gateway.chalmers.com.au [203.1.96.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA25310 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 14:54:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robert@chalmers.com.au) Received: from chalmers.com.au (carbon.chalmers.com.au [203.1.96.26]) by nanguo.chalmers.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA00581 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 08:53:06 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <36AF9CE1.D4CC72C4@chalmers.com.au> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 09:10:26 +1000 From: Robert Chalmers Reply-To: robert@chalmers.com.au Organization: chalmers.com.au X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: zh-CN,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Turning off VJ compression. Is it necessary Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I see from the archives that if modem compression is turned off, then VJ compression operates more efficiently. Among other things.. quote:............ 3. Modem compression, as you have noticed, often interferes with VJ compression used in SLIP and PPP implementations. 2. Modem compression often interferes with, and lengthens transfer of, compressed files such as .gz and .jpg. 1. Modem compression slows down turn-around time -- terrible for interactive sessions. ............................... pppctl indicates that VJ Compression is on, on the ppp link, although I know I turned compression off in the modem (%C0 - Hayes Accura). But, is there any improvement in turning off VJ Compression as well, or is it better left on? bob -- http://www.chalmers.com.au. Publications From China in 24 different languages. English, French, German, Russian, Arabic, Spanish, Chinese, Burmese, Bengali, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Persian, Swahili, Sinhalese, Thai, Tamil, Urdu, Vietnamese. China Books for CIBTC, Beijing. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message