Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 10:56:42 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: rjs@clark.net (Ron Steele) Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: ping times using ppp Message-ID: <199507250126.KAA01300@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.87.9507242016.A1847-0100000@localhost> from "Ron Steele" at Jul 24, 95 08:47:16 pm
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Ron Steele stands accused of saying: > 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? Nope, that's about normal. After a while, you get used to it. You can sometimes improve things a little by turning off compression in the modem. > Ron -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[
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