From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 24 17:55:12 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id RAA29052 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 17:55:12 -0700 Received: from localhost.clark.net (h-adjutant.dc.infi.net [204.117.149.131]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA29041 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 17:54:49 -0700 Received: (from rjs@localhost) by localhost.clark.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) id UAA01873; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 20:56:57 GMT Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1995 20:47:16 +0000 From: Ron Steele Subject: ping times using ppp To: question freebsd Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk When trying to do interactive work over a ppp link, I find the latency time very annoying. Ping generally reports round trip times of about a quarter second. I use hardware handshaking and v.34 modem on 16550 compatable serial card. Currenty 2.0R, soon to be upgrading. Does this time seem about right? Any ideas on how to improve these times? Ron